ยท An Aug. 28 A-section article about aid to Georgia incorrectly said that a U.S. military ship dropped off the first shipment on Aug. 27. A shipment arrived Aug. 24.
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U.S. Military Ship Delivers Aid to Georgia
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Four ships under NATO command, including the USS Taylor, are conducting scheduled exercises in the Black Sea with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies.
A senior Russian military official accused NATO nations of "ratcheting up tension" in the Black Sea but said Russia was not planning to add to its fleet there. "Now we have people flexing their muscles, demonstrating force," Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian general staff, said at a news briefing in Moscow.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko joined Western nations Wednesday in condemning Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and said his government might increase Russia's rent on its Sevastopol base, headquarters of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Russia has said any renegotiation would break a 1997 agreement between the two countries under which it currently leases the base for $98 million a year until 2017.
Kutelia said that the civilian and military ports at Poti were under Georgian control but that the Russians had established checkpoints around them. Asked about reports that the Russian army could soon begin examining shipments that pass through Poti, he said, "They will not have such crazy and irresponsible ideas," and added, "We will not let them."
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, denied that Russian troops were in Poti, saying they were in "a nearby territory."
Pan reported from Moscow. Correspondent Jonathan Finer in Tbilisi contributed to this report.
