The Georgians claim that it was shot down by a Police unit.
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‘Georgian interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said police had shot down the reconnaissance drone on Monday near a buffer zone around South Ossetia patrolled by Russian forces since last month’s conflict over the rebel region.
“Yesterday morning a Georgian police unit patrolling near the Baku-Supsa pipeline saw a small Russian unmanned plane, which was immediately downed.
“The drone, which was flying at an altitude of 50 metres (160 feet), was shot down by our policemen with automatic weapons. It was equipped with photographic camera and a global positioning system (GPS),” Utiashvili told AFP.
He defended the shooting down of the drone, saying a European Union-brokered peace deal did not provide for the use of drones.
“It was beyond the so-called buffer zone. Even in the buffer zone there’s nothing that allows Russia to use drones,” he said.
He added that the drone was downed a “few dozen metres” from the BP-operated Baku-Supsa pipeline, a key route for oil
deliveries from the Caspian Sea region to the West that has been closed since the conflict.’
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