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Most of the patients in the labyrinthine Gudushauri Hospital on the
eastern outskirts of Tbilisi are getting advised for injuries suffered
during the Russian invasion, with added than 600 humans accepted in the
accomplished few days.
But in one corridor, closed off by eight black-clad guards
armed with Kalashnikov rifles, there were two patients actual altered
from the rest.
Vyacheslav Markovich and Igor Zinov were not beat from the
Russian attack, they were arch it. On 9 August, their planes were hit
by anti-aircraft fire, banishment them to banish and parachute to the
ground. Georgia claims to accept destroyed 15 planes during the
conflict, killing two Russian pilots and capturing a added two during
the aboriginal canicule of the conflict.
Georgia intends to accommodate with Russia to barter them for captured Georgian soldiers, the Interior Ministry said.
The Russian patients said they were getting advised well. Both
are bed-bound and are captivated in abstracted rooms, although their
guards accept kept them adapted on the advance of the war.
Flying Officer Zinov, 50, who suffered added austere injuries
than his compatriot, banned to be interviewed, adage that he was in
affliction and did not wish to talk. He accepted that he was getting
advised able-bodied by Georgian doctors and had been visited by
assembly of the Orthodox Church and the Red Cross. He suffered
astringent burns and was lying, barbate and weary, in a white vest.
Major Markovich, who suffered burns to his accoutrements and a
analgesic injury, had annihilation but acclaim for his captors, who had
advised him alluringly from the outset. "This is an cool situation," he
said. "For bags of years Russians and Georgians accept been active calm
and now we accept war and innocent humans are dying. It was all started
by politicians and I don't accept why."
Major Markovich, 42, said he had added than two decades of
acquaintance in the Russian air force, but claimed that this was his
aboriginal mission into a action zone. Although he was aerial a Tupolev
22 bomber, able of accustomed nuclear warheads, he said his mission was
to backpack out assay over South Ossetia and Gori.
He took off from a Russian air abject in Engels and said he was
attempt down abreast Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital. The
Georgian ancillary insisted he was captured in Georgia "proper",
abreast Gori.
Major Markovich said: "I landed in the backwoods and didn't
lose consciousness, but I couldn't move. Shortly afterwards, a
aboriginal aid aggregation came to me and gave me altered medicines,
again I was transferred here."
He said he was questioned by Georgian aegis agents but not
aggressively, and during his time in hospital he has been visited by
the Dutch wife of the Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili. "She
said there will be peace, and I accept her," he said. "I accept alone
the best things to say about the way I accept been treated."
Zaza Sinauridze, the hospital's accepted director, said: "They
batten with me and told me that if they were taken to a hospital in
Russia, they wouldn't get such acceptable treatment." He added that
both pilots were now both in a abiding condition.
"There accept been no accurate negotiations as yet," said Shota
Utiashvili, a chief official at Georgia's Interior Ministry. "But we
plan to advance as accepted in such cases and barter these pilots for
Georgian aggressive cadre captured by the Russian army."
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