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Georgia says Russian troops destroying military facilities

Georgia Materials 14 August 2008 16:35 (UTC +04:00)

Georgia authorities Thursday said Russian forces were continuing to destroy Georgia's military facilities, dpa reported.

The internet agency Civil Georgia cited Georgian border guards as saying that Russian soldiers had again entered the Black Sea port city of Poti to render unusable the radar facilities there.

Meanwhile Georgian radio said that in the city of Senaki, near the border with the breakaway province Abkhazia, Russian troops had cleared out Georgian munitions depots, with loud explosions being heard. The radio's reporter surmised that part of the munitions were being destroyed.

In Gori, 60 kilometres north of Tbilisi, negotiations were meanwhile continuing over the return of Georgian police to the city. Georgian police vans were parked in a row on the city's outskirts.

Earlier, the Russian defence ministry had said that during the course of the day, Georgian police would again be placed in charge of controlling the city.

According to a report by the Itar-Tass agency in Tbilisi, Georgia's interior ministry said that its own police had started to return to the city, but then left again in the face of a stepped-up Russian military presence.

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