Estonian volunteers arrived in Georgia. Fifty - person delegation of volunteers visited the Ministry of Defence of Georgia as well. They will assist injured people and provide for humanitarian aid. The information spread via media about arriving of Estonian military units is not corresponds to the facts. Volunteers arrived for performing only humanitarian mission.

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Estonian volunteers join Georgian army


TBILISI. Aug 14 (Interfax) - Fifty Estonian volunteers were
enlisted in the Georgian army on Thursday, chief of the Georgian Defense
Ministry International Relations Department Nino Bakradze told reporters
later in the day.
"The Estonian government sent its servicemen to protect Georgia's
sovereignty and ensure a Russian troop withdrawal from Georgian
territory," she said.
Bakradze thanked the "Estonian people and Estonian government on
behalf of the people and government of Georgia".
Meanwhile, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office Investigative
Committee has announced that foreign mercenaries were among the Georgian
troops that stormed Tskhinvali.
"Evidence obtained during interviews with Tskhinvali residents
shows that citizens of several foreign states were taking part in the
attack," the committee's spokesman Igor Komissarov told reporters on
Thursday.
Earlier this week, the Russian General Staff confirmed that foreign
citizens participated in Georgia's military operations in South Ossetia.
"We have met black-skin Georgians and others, with foreign
passports - who are indeed fighting on the Georgian side," Deputy Chief
of the Russian General Staff Anatoly Nagovitsin told a press conference
in Moscow on August 11.
An Estonian infantry company, Estcoy-6, is serving in Afghanistan.
At least three Estonians have been wounded in Helmand province recently.

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