Georgia frees Russian peacekeepers

Rustavi-2 TV, Tbilisi
21 Mar 05

Four Russian military personnel arrested today by the Georgian
rapid-reaction battalion in the village of Ganmukhuri have been handed
over to the head of the 304th observation post in the [Georgian-Abkhaz]
conflict zone.

The peacekeepers sent four armoured vehicles and 30 servicemen
to Ganmukhuri to collect the arrested men, who included an ethnic
Armenian, Kabardian and Russian. The fourth man had no identity papers.

According to Georgian law-enforcement officials, the Russian personnel
were drunk at the time of their arrest.