US citizen who violated the border was detained in South Ossetia

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Upper Yerman (Dzau district), the violator was detained ... It turned out to be a US citizen Jackson Paul Kramer, born in 1997, a native of North Carolina, "Interfax reports.

According to the American, he arrived in Georgia on August 14 to walk along the pedestrian route along the entire Main Caucasian ridge, starting from the border with Azerbaijan, ending with the coast of Abkhazia, through the territory of South Ossetia.

Commenting on the violation of the border, the US citizen noted that he did not know about the modern international status of the Republic of South Ossetia.

As specified, on September 6, Kramer was brought to administrative responsibility and in accordance with article 14 of the law "On the state border" was expelled and handed over to the Georgian side.

Earlier in Greece, Turkish fighters had violated the country's airspace.