Interfax News Agency, Russia
May 26 2008

Sukhumi has every proof that Abkhaz Armed Forces brought down all
Georgian drones – minister

SUKHUMI May 26

The Abkhaz Defense Ministry is ready to provide every proof for the
fact that it was the Abkhaz Armed Forces that brought down all
Georgian unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

"I can easily prove that all Georgian numbed aircraft were brought
down by the Abkhaz Armed Forces. We have every necessary means for
this," Abkhaz Defense Minister Merab Kishmariya told Interfax.

The Abkhaz Armed Forces have both every necessary tactical means, air
defense complexes and other arms, and aircraft, the minister said.

"Abkhazians, Russians, Georgians and Armenians serve in the Abkhaz
army, and if the aircraft was brought down by a Russian serviceman of
the Abkhaz army, this does not mean that it was brought down by a
servicemen of the Russian army. And if the aircraft was brought down
by a Georgian servicemen of the Abkhaz army, it would be stupid to
state that Georgia brought it down," Kishmariya said.