Georgian State Security Ministry launched an anti-smuggling operation in breakaway South Ossetia.
State Security Ministry’s special forces were dispatched to the village, five kilometers away from Tskhinvali, which is unrecognized South Ossetian Republic’s capital.
Nika Laliashvili, spokesman of the State Security Ministry said that the Russian peacekeeping troops, deployed in the conflict zone, were informed regarding the operation in advance.
Reports say that the Georgian law enforcers have already seized large number of smuggled goods and fuel.
Georgia today sent special forces into its separatist republic of South Ossetia in an antismuggling operation.