Sukhum/Agency Caucasus – Abkhazia has shot down one more Georgian spy aircraft at 5.10 p.m. on Friday while it was flying over Ochamcihra.
It was Garri Kupalba, Deputy Minister of Defense of Abkhazia, who announced details about the shooting down.
Just after the shooting down, another unmanned aircraft appeared up in the sky. This time, however, it was allowed to continue to fly because it was flying over the international airspace, Abkhazian officials said.
The work of search has been started to pinpoint where exactly the aircraft was shot down.
Today’s incident marks the shooting down of the fifth Georgian unmanned spy aircraft since the first one was shot down on March 18. The second one was shot down on April 20, followed by the two others on May 4.
The formerly shot-down four aircrafts are a production of the Elbit Systems, an Israeli aircraft manufacturing company.
Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia, however, denied that his country’s unmanned aircraft was shot down on Friday, and added that aircrafts of this kind continue to carry on with what they were designed to perform. KU/ÖZ/FT
