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RBC, 23.09.2008, Moscow 15:36:01.Russia's Defense Ministry denies that its unmanned reconnaissance aircraft has reportedly been shot down over Georgia, Colonel Alexander Drobyshevsky, head of the ministry's press office told RBC today. This is a new provocation by Georgia aiming to destabilize the situation in the region, he asserted, adding that no Russian aircraft was even flying in the security zone in the given period.
Shota Utiashvili, Georgia's spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told journalists in Tbilisi earlier that a Russian unmanned plane was shot down near the village of Tsitelubani. Utiashvili maintained that the aircraft had been on a reconnaissance flight in the area of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
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