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Tsitelubani - Jets flown from Russia fired an air-to-surface missile at Georgian territory in an "act of aggression", Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said yesterday.
Russia, which has a long history of tense relations with the former Soviet republic, denied that its Air Force had flown missions in Georgian airspace.
"Our radars show that these jets flew from Russia and then flew back in the same direction," Merabishvili said.
"I assess this fact as an act of aggression ... "
Georgian officials say the ordnance hit the village of Tsitelubani, about 65km west of the capital, Tbilisi, but did not explode.
Tsitelubani is near Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, a long-standing cause of friction between Russia and Tbilisi. Russia provides moral and financial support for Georgia's rebel Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions.
- Reuters
