Major-General Vyacheslav Borisov (L), deputy commander of Russia's paratroopers and in command of the Gori region, speaks to Georgia's Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II as they visit the city of Gori, near South Ossetia, August 15, 2008.
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Posted on Fri Aug 15 2008
Moscow, August 15, Interfax - Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia visited Gori on Thursday as a member of delegation, which included over 120 representatives of mass media and diplomatic missions. He saw nothing was destroyed in the city, deputy head of the Russia's general staff colonel-general Anatoly Nogovitsyn said."They made sure there were no destructions vividly depicted by the Georgian side," the Russian general-colonel said at a briefing on Friday.
According to him, "downtown is safe and suburbs were not as violently damaged as we heard (from some mass-media) and it couldn't have been otherwise."
"We have always said that Russian troops didn't apply heavy equipment and armament in Gori," Nogovitsyn stressed.
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