MOSCOW. May 5 (Interfax-AVN) - The convoy of vehicles of the 62nd Russian military base, pending the withdrawal from Georgia, has left Akhalkalaki heading for the town of Tsalka on Friday.
"The convoy will have to cover 40 km from Akhalkalaki to the railway station of Tsalka, where the first train is being prepared for departure," Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, deputy commander of the Russian military force in Transcaucasia, told Interfax-Military News Agency by phone from Tbilisi.
According to him, these vehicles, as well as those dispatched to Tsalka on Wednesday, will be used to deploy an interim camp in support of the task force that will load vehicles on railway cars.
He added that the first batch of heavy vehicles to be dispatched to Russia will expectedly come to Tsalka in a week.
The first train will depart to Russia on May 15, he said.
Representatives of Georgian government monitor the withdrawal from Akhalkalaki, Kuparadze noted.
He also said that in the face of the withdrawal preparations, the celebration of Victory Day in Russian units in Georgia will be shortened.