Russian FM Sergey Lavrov stated Thursday that Russia is going to attain release of the military detained in Georgia by all means available. “We demanded immediate release of our citizens and we will work firmly to attain it by all means available,” he said. In his words, “there is cause for the UN Security Council to engage in that issue.” Lavrov was concerned over the incident in Georgia and called it “recurrent provocation and demonstration of anti-Russian policy.”
We remind that Russian military and Georgian citizens suspected of espionage were detained in Tbilisi, Batumi and other towns of the country on Wednesday. According to the data of the Georgian Interior Ministry, another Russian citizen, allegedly accomplice of intelligence activities, is hiding in the building of the Group of Russian Troops in Transcaucasia (GRTT). The building was encircled and Georgian Defense Minister Irakly Okurashvili promised to continue the siege, until K. Pichugin is given away to the Georgian party. Georgian law enforcers cannot get to the GRTT territory, as it has diplomatic immunity, reports RIA Novosti.
