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Kodori Valley helicopter attack: On October 8, 2001, a UNOMIG helicopter was shot down by unknown attackers, killing all nine aboard. 2001 Kodori crisis : In the fall of 2001 a group of Chechen fighters, led by the commander Ruslan Gelayev , entered the gorge from the Georgian side, causing a major flare-up in Georgian-Abkhazian relations.
Russian soldier from Novosibirsk Oblast was killed in Kodori Gorge on 10 August 2008. [34] About 2,000 people living in the Kodori Gorge fled. The Abkhaz authorities said they were allowing the return of the refugees, [35] but by late March 2009, only 130 people resided in the Upper Kodori Valley. [36]
The 2001 Kodori crisis was a confrontation in the Kodori Valley, Abkhazia, in October 2001 between Georgians (who were supported by ethnic Chechen fighters) and Abkhazian forces. [3] The fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 40 people.
The 2006 Kodori crisis erupted in late July 2006 in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge, when a local militia leader declared his opposition to the Government of Georgia, which sent police forces to disarm the rebels. The upper part of the Kodori Gorge was at that time the only portion of Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway republic, not controlled by the Abkhaz ...
Ethnic cleansing of Georgians from South Ossetia and the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia. [12] Recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russia [13] Russian military bases established in Abkhazia and South Ossetia [14] Severance of Georgia–Russia relations. [15]
The 2007 Georgia helicopter incident refers to the accusation [1] by Georgia that three Russian helicopters fired on the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia on 11 March 2007. It was a break-away autonomous republic in north-western Georgia (at the time [ 2 ] the Kodori Gorge was the only portion of Abkhazia still under Georgia's control).
The 2007 Bokhundjara incident, in Georgia more commonly known as the special operation Kodori 2007, was a confrontation between Georgian Interior Ministry commandos and forces of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia and Russia [citation needed] near the de facto border in Tkvarcheli District on September 20, 2007. [1]
The recent disruption of the Status quo ante in the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia led to a further downturn in the already tensed Russian-Georgian relations. In July 2006, the Georgian police and security forces took control of the Kodori Valley, hitherto controlled by the local Georgian militias led by the defiant commander Emzar Kvitsiani.