Georgian official and Russian military commander said late on Wednesday, that the Georgian police would be able to return back to the town of Gori starting from early August 14.

Alexandre Maisuradze, chief of the local police, said people who have fled the town close to the South Ossetian conflict zone, would be able to return as soon as the Georgian police is back.

Meanwhile, deputy commander of the Russia’s airborne troops, Maj. Gen. Alexander Borisov, who was in Gori on August 13 meeting with the Georgian officials there, denied reports about Russian forces ever entering Gori.

He said that the Russian forces were stationed in the vicinity of the town recovering and collecting arms, equipment and ammunition, which, as he said, was abandoned by the Georgian army while retreating back towards Tbilisi.

“It is dangerous, there were plenty of abandoned firearm; there are some 40 military vehicles over those heights,” Borisov told a group of Georgian journalists in Gori, who were accompanying secretary of the Georgian National Security Council, Alexandre Lomaia, to Gori.

Public Defender, Sozar Subari, was also there on August 13.

He told Civil.Ge on the phone that he had spoken with some of the local population in Gori and eyewitnesses telling stories of looting, robbery, killings and kidnappings by paramilitary groups, who were infiltrating the town time after time.

“We will study all these cases and table a relevant document,” Subari said.