ANOTHER TRAIN WITH RUSSIAN MILITARY HARDWARE READY TO LEAVE GEORGIA
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
June 26, 2006 Monday 6:09 PM MSK
Another train with Russian military hardware has been prepared for
leaving the Tsalka railway station in Georgia, Colonel Vladimir
Kuparadze, deputy commander of the Russian military force in
Transcaucasia, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"The train will leave Tsalka early on Tuesday and deliver to Russia 22
self-propelled artillery systems and 72 tonnes of ammunition and other
property of the 62nd Russian military base stationed in Akhalkalaki,"
Kuparadze said by phone from Tbilisi.
"It will be the 12th train with Russian materiel leaving Georgia in
the framework of Russian military bases withdrawal from the country,"
he said.
Seven trains with hardware, armaments and other property of the 62nd
base and the 12th base in Batumi earlier left for Russia through
Azerbaijan. Four more trains left Batumi for Armenia to deliver
addition armaments and materiel to the 102nd Russian base stationed
in the town of Gyumri.
The Russian military bases are to be withdrawn from Georgia before
the end of 2008.