Day of Remembrance of Defenders of Abkhazia
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On August 14, 1992, troops of the State Council of Georgia entered Abkhazia. According to the official version of Tbilisi, the troops were introduced allegedly to guard the railway on the Psou-Ingur section. The Supreme Council of Abkhazia described the actions of the State Council of Georgia as “a prepared occupation of the territory of sovereign Abkhazia.”
After the entry of Georgian troops, an armed confrontation began, which escalated into a Georgian-Abkhaz war. The fighting lasted 413 days and ended with the defeat of the Georgian armed forces. Up to 12,000 people participated in this war. Its victims were more than 2,700 people, more than five thousand people were injured.