AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Georgia accused the Russian army of selling several surface-to-air missiles to the separatist region of Abkhazia on Feb. 13, a charge dismissed by Moscow.
Georgian Defense Minister Irakly Okruashvili displayed a Strela missile to television cameras and legislators, saying it had been delivered to the Abkhazian town of Tskhinvali several weeks ago from a Russian military base in Akhalkalaki in southern Georgia.
Reacting to the charge, Russian defense ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Sedov told the Itar-Tass news agency:
