"The Georgian Foreign Ministry protests and demands that Russia explain [this]," the Sunday declaration of the Georgian Foreign Ministry reads. Tbilisi insists that this alleged action adds to the "escalation of tension in the Tskhinvali region."
On June 12 the headquarters of Russia's North Caucasus Military District denied reports that a Russian armor motorcade had entered South Ossetia on June 11.
Chief of the press service of the military district Colonel Igor Konashenkov told RIA Novosti that "there were truck deliveries of foods and materiel" in accordance with "the plan of rotation of peacekeeping forces in the South Ossetia-Georgia zone."
Konashenkov said that the trucks had delivered "tents, food, spare parts for motor vehicles, and firewood."
"There were no motorcades with weapons or ammunition going to South Ossetia," he emphasized.
Earlier on June 12 Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania told reporters in Tbilisi that the previous day 150 "trucks with weapons" from Russian military units had entered the Tskhinvali region, which is the newly approved Georgian name for South Ossetia. He said that five BMP infantry fighting vehicles, some anti-aircraft systems, and ammunition had come to South Ossetia from Russia.
However, on the same day South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoyty told a news conference in Moscow that Tbilisi's allegations that Russian troops had entered the territory of the self-proclaimed republic were untrue.
