Sukhum/Agency Caucasus – The Abkhazian Ministry of Defense claimed on Saturday that the fifth Georgian spy aircraft that had been shot down while it was flying over Ochamchira after it entered Abkhazian airspace on May 8 was equipped with a specific kind missile.
The Abkhazian Ministry of Defense experts thought that the Georgian unmanned spy aircraft was meant to transport a missile through the air, said Garri Kupalba, Deputy Minister of Defense.
Kupalba let reporters see the parts that remained after the aircraft was shot down.
"The kind of explosive that was in the unmanned aircraft was a real threat both to the civilians and the peacekeeping troops. It is the United Nations (UN) military monitors and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Peacekeeping Forces that located the place where the aircraft fell. The kind of material that was used in the production of the aircraft led to the total annihilation of it."
Kupalba accused Georgia of severely violating the ceasefire agreement, signed 14 May 1994 in Moscow, administrative capital of Russia, and the UN Security Council’s Article 1808. ÖZ/FT
