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Article: Russia to increase border troops deployed in Abkhazia, South Ossetia
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- August 5, 2009
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Russia to increase border troops deployed in Abkhazia, South
Ossetia
MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Russia plans to increase the number of
troops it has deployed in Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia
and South Ossetia from around 1,800 to 3,000 by the end of the year,
a deputy foreign minister said Wednesday.
"Presently, there are some 1,000 Russian military personnel in
Abkhazia and up to 800 in South Ossetia," Grigory Karasin said,
quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency.
He said that by the end of the year there will be 1,500 troops in
each region.
Karasin also said Russia has verified reports that say Ukraine
was involved in arm shipments to Georgia prior to the brief war
between ...