The last night was relatively calm in South Ossetia, even though it was not without incidents. The republic's Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass that a traffic police post came under fire in a southwestern suburb of Tskhinvali”. “The shooting was carried out with noiseless small arms. There have been no casualties,” it said. A source in the law enforcement agencies also said the “South Ossetian side has registered movements of Georgian units on the whole perimeter of contact during the night”. South Ossetian security agencies are continuing to be on alert. Also on alert is the contingent of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF). The JPKF Commander Vladimir Ivanov said “temporarily mounted posts of peacekeepers of the Russian battalion are continuing to operate in the conflict zone”.
