Tskhinvali-based border guard forces of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) have denied Tbilisi's allegation of seizing plots of land on the Georgian-controlled territories adjacent to breakaway South Ossetia.

The Georgian Interior Minister said that the Russian forces started early September 29 "illegal ‘border demarcation works’ by putting steel poles" in several villages at the administrative border line and in the process seized at least 30 hectares of farmland..

"The Russian forces are not conducting any demarcation works on the South Ossetian border with Georgia," a brief statement, posted on a website of the breakaway region's authorities, said.