Sun 17 Aug 2008
There’s evidence that the Russian’s have set fire to a national forrest in Georgia:
Georgia’s Interior Ministry said Russian helicopter gunships swooped over a region near the Borjomi-Kharagauli national park in central Georgia on Friday and dropped bombs that set fire to the densely forested hills.
“We’re sure that the Russians started the fires in our woods,” ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said.
Georgian Environment Minister Irakly Gvaladze also blamed Russian helicopters for starting the fires.
“Local people say that the fires were started by Russian helicopters. They flew over the forests and then the fires started,”" he said.
“Now the Russians are not allowing aviation teams from Ukraine and Turkey to help put out the fires.”