Photo: A Russian MiG-29 Fulcrum Story and video here. The video clearly shows what appears to be a MiG-29 "Fulcrum" firing a missile directly at the drone, which then abruptly stops sending video.
h/t: NationalNewswatch.com
Georgia's defence ministry has released video showing what appears to be a Russian MiG-29 shooting down the unarmed Georgian drone on Sunday.
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Mr Saakashvili himself went on Georgian TV to say he had "categorically demanded [of Mr Putin]... that these aggressive attacks on Georgia be stopped immediately".
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Tbilisi believes Moscow is fuelling the separatist conflict in Abkhazia to maintain Russian influence in the region and to damage Georgia's hopes of joining Nato, the BBC's Matthew Collin reports from Georgia.
Sounds like classic Russian strategy. Classic.
"It's absolutely illegal for a Russian MiG-29 to be there," said Col David Nairashvili, the air force commander.
"Russian military aircraft intruded into Georgian airspace above Abkhazia, Georgia," said President Saakashvili on television.
Clearly, Russia can't be considered on the side of the good guys. Russia is up to its old Soviet Cold War foreign affairs/military strategy of destabilizing other nations to boost herself by default.
