Tbilisi, Georgia
Explosives ripped through natural-gas lines in Russia this week, cutting off supplies to Georgia and Armenia just as those countries were hit with a cold snap. The blasts damaged pipelines in the North Ossetia region of southern Russia. In a separate incident, an electricity transmission tower in a Russian region that supplies Georgian gas was also destroyed. Georgia’s Interior Ministry said 22 pounds of plastic explosives and two detonators were found at the site. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the blasts were carried out so that Georgia would “break apart” and “fall into the hands of Russia.” The Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed the charge as “hysteria.”
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