By SPA,
Moscow : Extra Russian troops have begun arriving in Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region, Russian media said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
Russia announced this week it was deploying about 1,000 additional peacekeeping troops to the region to counter what it said were Georgian plans for an attack.
Georgia’s pro-Western leaders have called the re-enforcement irresponsible and illegal. The Russian defence ministry said the contingent would remain within the 3,000 limit allowed under a
United Nations-brokered ceasefire agreement signed in 1994.
“The contingent is completing the concentration of units in their deployment locations,” Russia’s RIA news agency quoted the defence ministry as saying in a statement.
“The Russian peacekeepers have begun equipping arms stores, vehicle parks and field kitchens. Operations are under way to guard the deployment points and fit out command points and communications systems.”