| 09.11.200913:34 (GMT) | An official of the Russian military intelligence who wished to remain unnamed ‘leaked’ to journalists in Moscow today the information that the United States have allegedly offered supplying of a large lot of armament, military equipment and ammunition to Georgia in the amount of more than $100 million, and to carry out the transaction through a private company, Barrington Alliance Incorporated with the head office in Chicago, instead of governmental channels, online edition of the Moscow daily Izvestia reports. It says the offered armament includes upgraded ground-to-air missiles Patriot-3, personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missiles Stinger and Igla-3 missiles of portable and motorized versions, Javelin man-portable surface-to-air missiles, and precision-strike semiactive laser-guided Hellfire II missile systems. The quantity of ammunition, including cartridges for small arms, has been estimated in dozens of millions pieces, according to the Russian military intelligence official.
The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has confirmed this ireport. "After the military confrontation in the Caucasus, the Ministry of Defence of Georgia created a structure under the name, Studying of Warfare Lessons. According to its conclusions, it is necessary to urgently raise potentialities of the Georgian army in conducting of anti-aircraft and anti-tank defense, and also to have highly mobile forces of special operations capable to effectively operate in the mountains and equipped by modern means of warfare, the official of the military intelligence has prepared read the prepared text to the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS. „The delivery to Georgia of the specified armament by the USA completely corresponds to conclusions of the Georgian militaries".
Last week the head of the Russian military intelligence Alexander Shlyakhturov declared that the NATO member-states, Ukraine and Israel had been rendering military assistance to Georgia. The NATO delivers small arms and equipment, the USA conduct trainings of personnel, Israel sells drones, and Ukraine sells tanks and means of air defence, according to the head of the Russian GRU, Newsru adds
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