Georgian troops on guard in Eredvi village (Photo AFP)Rebels Authorised To Return Fire Against Georgia -- AFP
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia-backed separatist authorities in South Ossetia on Saturday ordered their soldiers to return fire if shot at by Georgian forces following an alleged shooting incident earlier in the day.
"From today all posts have been given an order to return fire if their posts come under fire," the separatist government said on its official website, quoting the province's de facto interior minister, Mikhail Mindzayev.
The province's leader, Eduard Kokoity, meanwhile accused European Union monitors in the region of being biased, failing to uphold an EU-brokered ceasefire and making the situation worse, Russian news agencies reported.
In the first such reported incident since a brief war in the region in August, South Ossetian authorities earlier on Saturday accused Georgian forces of firing on their soldiers with machine guns and grenade launchers.
A spokesman for Georgia's interior ministry denied this, saying the fire in fact came from drunken Russian soldiers shooting into the air. He also said a Russian spy plane had been spotted in the area in breach of the truce.
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