Russia plans stealth retaliation on Georgian special operations forces for the bomb killed eight Russian troops
Media Release
Oct. 4, 2008

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday ordered a tightening of security in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region after a bomb blamed by Moscow on Georgian special forces killed eight Russian troops.

Medvedev ordered a "painstaking investigation" into Friday's car bomb blast at a Russian military base in Tskhinvali after the separatist regime's interior minister told AFP that three civilians had also died, taking the toll to 11.

The Russian leader ordered the defence ministry, in coordination with Georgia's Moscow-backed separatist administrations, to take "all necessary steps to prevent criminal acts against Russian peacekeepers and the civilian population," the Kremlin said in a statement.

Earlier a Russian prosecution spokesman, Vladimir Markin, said there was "every reason to believe the explosion in Tskhinvali was arranged by Georgian secret services," Russian news agencies reported.

The charge was denied by Georgia's interior ministry, which said the blast might have been intended to delay a pullback of Russian troops from a "buffer zone" around South Ossetia, part of a European-brokered peace plan.

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