The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Georgia reported about the shooting on the administrative border with Abkhazia, controlled by Russian soldiers, resulting in the death of the Georgian citizen.
The foreign Ministry reported that 31-year-old gig okotau the Russian soldiers shot and killed at the line of demarcation.
According to eyewitnesses, in Okotau was shot six times when he was on the territory controlled by the Georgian side.
In Tbilisi expressed “shock and deep sorrow” in connection with the shooting and promised to use all legal and political mechanisms to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Note, the Russian troops are on the administrative borders of the separatist regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and South Ossetia since 2008, after the Georgian-Russian war.
We will remind, on December 25 last year in Tbilisi said that still do not see preconditions to the restoration of diplomatic relations with Moscow. Georgia announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia in 2008 amid a military conflict.
And in the summer of last year, Georgia accused Russia of provoking armed conflict. In Tbilisi accused the Russian and South Ossetian border guards that their efforts shifted the border deep into Georgian territory.
