MIA: Policeman Injured in S.Ossetian Border Shooting

A Georgian policeman was wounded after a fire was opened in direction of the police post in the village of Koshka close to the South Ossetian administrative border, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said on Sunday.
 
"The fire was opened from the Russian-occupied territory yesterday [on December 27] at 11:30pm," the Interior Ministry said.

Ibragim Gassiev, the deputy defense minister of breakaway South Ossetia, said although the South Ossetian border guard post in the area had heard sound of shooting from the nearby Georgian village, but said the South Ossetian side had nothing to do with the incident.
 
Authorities of breakaway South Ossetia have also claimed that a company-sized special purpose unit of the Georgian Interior Ministry was deployed in the village of Ditsi at the administrative border, which they said, triggered Tskhinvali to reinforce border protection in that area. The Georgian side has strongly denied deployment of its special task force in the village.

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