Russia held ups troops

Russian Army held up 21 Georgian soldiers in the Black Sea port of Poti on Tues. On a day as Russian Army continued to dig in to positions across Georgia, the detention of the troops — who were bound and blindfolded — was further evidence of continued military activity on Georgian territory by Russia despite assurances that its troops would withdraw.

The Georgian soldiers were taken by the Russians to a military base at Senaki, along with five armored American Humvees that were due to be shipped back to the United States.

Shota Utiashvili, a spokesman for Georgia’s Interior Ministry, said the American Humvees were used in joint American-Georgian military exercises this summer and were in crates and inside shipping containers in preparation for them to be shipped back to the United States. Around 4 p.m., the American Humvees were moving on the road toward Abkhazia, the Russian-controlled enclave in western Georgia.