Alexander Bastyrkin, head of the Investigation Committee at the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, announced that Georgia recruited U.S., Turkish, Ukrainian and Czech hirelings for the August attack on South Ossetia.
“Involvement of UNA-UNSO Ukrainian nationalistic organization in hostilities was proved. Presence of foreign hirelings on the Georgian army was confirmed by evidence of numerous witnesses questioned after the tragic events,” he said, RIA Novosti reports.
On the evening of August 7, 2008, Georgia launched a ground- and air-based military attack on South Ossetia’s capital, Tskhinvali, killing over 1.5 thousand civilians.
Tbilisi also planned a concentrated blow on Abkhazia.
