(Thanks LJ) AP: Georgia accused Russia of ''undisguised aggression'', saying 2 Russian fighter jets intruded on its airspace and fired a missile that landed near a house. Russia denied the allegation -- the latest dispute between Moscow and the former Soviet republic.
The Interior Ministry said 2 Russian Su-24 bombers illegally entered Georgia's airspace Monday night over the Gori region, about 35 miles NW of the capital, and fired a missile that landed on the edge of the village of Shavshvebi.
The missile did not explode, Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said.
Georgia has long accused Russia of trying to destabilize the country and of backing separatists in its breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which President Mikhail Saakashvili has pledged to bring back into the Georgian fold.
The Gori region where the missile was dropped is next to South Ossetia.
Aug 7, 2007
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