Georgia Foreign Ministry said “Russian occupants entered” into the village of Kveshi on the Georgian side of the South Ossetian administrative border on August 2 and “with the aim of shifting the so-called ‘border’ marked off the territory of the Georgian village with posts.”

Kveshi, which is part of Gori district, is located in south-east from breakaway South Ossetia’s capital Tskhinvali.

Local residents told Imedi TV that Russians marked off territory by erecting small iron pillars 500 meters deep into the village.

Steve Bird, a spokesman for the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, told Civil.Ge that the Russian forces on the ground told the EU monitors they had no intention to move their checkpoint to the location they marked by posts.

The move “represents an attempt by the Russian occupants to penetrate into the depth of the Georgian territory,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.

It said that the move came couple of days after Eduard Kokoity, leader of breakaway South Ossetia, said Tskhinvali would raise “territorial claims” beyond boundary lines of South Ossetia and would demand “return” of Truso gorge.

Truso gorge is located on the slop of the Caucasus Mountains on the Russian-Georgian border in north-east of the breakaway region and administratively is part of the Kazbegi district in Georgia’s Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.

“It is obvious that the proxy regime in Tskhinvali voices the plans, which the Russian occupants are intending to carry out in practice,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.

It also said that Russia would bear full responsibility for “any further provocation.”

“Extremely alarming is also the fact that with the approach of the anniversary of Russia's aggression against Georgia, the Russian side and the proxy regimes under its control, make deliberate efforts to escalate the situation and behave in an openly provocative manner.”

“Georgia calls on the international community to keep a close watch on the current development of events and give due assessment to the occupants' actions and rhetoric,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.