The terrorist attack arrived on the tail of the OSCE

The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoita said yesterday that the number of checkpoints on the border with Georgia would reduce to two, the Republic of the Republic’s Ministry of Internal Affairs will switch to an enhanced service regime and thus control of the contact line will be tightened. The tightening of the control was one of the consequences of the explosion that occurred on Friday at the headquarters of the peacekeeping troops of Russia in Tskhinvali. According to the latest data, nine Russian military were killed from the explosion, including Colonel Ivan Petrik, the chief of the United Headquarters to maintain peace in South Ossetia, and six were injured. The power of explosives was about 20 kg in TNT equivalent. Yesterday all the circumstances of what happened were still not clear.

According to one version, widespread by the Press and Information Committee of South Ossetia, the UAZ abandoned by someone, seized by peacekeepers in the Georgian village of Ditsi and parked at the headquarters building. Five military personnel were killed on the spot, including Colonel Petrik, who was in his office. Four more died later in the hospital. In turn, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, one of the two “nine” exploded, detained by peacekeepers during patrolling in the Ditsi area. In cars weapons and explosives were found. In addition, there were four people in the cars. They did not have documents, and they were taken to the headquarters to establish a person. During the inspection of one of the cars, an explosion occurred. According to this version, seven peacekeepers were killed on the spot, and eight were injured.

The Russian builder was killed

According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, Mikhail Minzaev, the Chechenstroy company was fired from the Georgian village of Nikosi yesterday from the village of Nikosi. According to the minister, one of the passengers, the builder, died.

One of the eyewitnesses of the explosion, an official of the Government of South Ossetia informed the correspondent of Gazeta that the detained cars were moving in the tail of the OSCE column. Since their numbers were absent in the list of travel to the buffer zone, the peacekeepers decided to drive away cars to check for the headquarters. In each car, according to the source of the "newspaper", there were two citizens of Georgia. During the explosion, two of them died, two were injured.

On Saturday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the law enforcement agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct a "thorough investigation of all the circumstances of the death under the terrorist attack of Russian peacekeepers." In the details of the incident, the investigation group of the military investigative department of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of Russia should be understood. A criminal case was instituted under Article 205 of the Criminal Code ("terrorism"). Thus, from the very beginning, the versions about the random undermining of ammunition during the check of vehicles have been thrown back.

"The Russian Ministry of Defense regards the incident as a carefully planned terrorist act aimed at disrupting the obligations of the parties to comply with the provisions of the Medvedev and Sarcose plan," the representative of the military department told the newspaper to the correspondent. The official representative of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office Vladimir Markin made the same version. "The investigation group, which conducts a preliminary investigation, has every reason to assume that the explosion in Tskhinvali was arranged by Georgian intelligence services in order to destabilize the situation in an independent republic," he said.

The US Department of State, and then the current OSCE chairman, Foreign Minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, made the terrorist attack yesterday. The Ministry of Defense of the correspondent of the Gazeta assured that the order of Dmitry Medvedev to withdraw Russian troops from the buffer zone until October 10 would be fulfilled under any circumstances. The first two posts under the supervision of the OSCE representatives were shot at the city of Gori and in the Zugdid district on Sunday, followed by the dismantling of checkpoints in the villages of Ganmukhuri, Anaklia, Kanti and Chorotsk.