MOSCOW. May 31 (Interfax-AVN) - A train with a new unit of Russian peacekeepers for the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone is being unloaded at the Ochamchira train station on Wednesday, Colonel Igor Konashenkov, an aide to the Russian Land Forces commander-in-chief, told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"The train has brought personnel and other supplies in the conflict zone. No vehicles or heavy weapons have been brought," Konashenkov said.
"The new peacekeeping contingent will use the same equipment and arms as those used by the previous one," he said.
The troops are supposed to replace one of the three battalions incorporated in the Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the region, he said.
"It is a battalion numbering about 500 servicemen, which is deployed in the southern security zone in Georgia's Zugdidi district," Konashenkov said.