Abkhazia’s forces have launched assault on upper Kodori Gorge, where the Georgian troops are stationed. Abkhazia will need a few days to gain control over the area, vowed Sergei Bagapsh, the president of the republic.
“The operation in upper Kodori Gorge for forcing out the Georgian units develops successfully. Everything is up to the plan, our troops have entered upper Kodori Gorge,” Bagapsh told Interfax this morning. “We will take the region under complete control in a few days,” the president specified, pointing out that the assault is carried out by force of Abkhazian troops exclusively.
The strength of Georgian forces in Kodori was roughly 3,000, Abkhazia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba told Vesti 24 TV Channel. “But shelling and air attacks never stopped in the last few days, and it’s difficult to say, how many have remained there,”
As Aljazeera tv reported, Tuesday afternoon the forces of Abkhazia succeed to push Georgian forces out of the Kodori Gorge and the area become under the control of the Abkhazians.
Georgia deployed troops to Kodori Gorge in July of 2006.
Natpress
