The FINANCIAL — According to Civil Georgia, head of the investigative unit of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, Alexandr Bastrikin, said foreign mercenaries were fighting on the Georgian side during the August war.
“An investigative group, set up to probe into Georgia’s aggression, has confirmed, that a group of American, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian and Chechen mercenaries was operating,” Interfax news agency reported on November 24, quoting Bastrikin while speaking at a conference on international humanitarian law in St. Petersburg.