The Kodori Gorge straddles the border between the breakaway republic of Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia.
Saakashvili said this would serve as a lesson for separatists and those protecting them, and would show Abkhazia that "we can do in a month what they have been unable to do for 14 years."
(Interfax)
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