MOSCOW. April 11 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian peacekeeping force in the zone of the conflict between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region has denied Georgian media reports that some Abkhazians have abducted a priest from a Georgian village and that some peacekeepers were involved in the alleged abduction.
The reports are "a lot of ravings," Lt. Col. Alexander Diordiyev, spokesman for the force commander, told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
"It is quite difficult to comment on the paranoid imagination of some authors. There is apparently someone who is having quite an acute spring [mental] crisis, and this is giving rise to hallucinations such as the one that helicopters belonging to the Russian peacekeepers have been carrying groups of people that are involved in abductions, groups that do not exist," Diordiyev said.
The Georgian reports named Chuburkhindzhi village as the site of the alleged abduction.