Russian warplanes have not violated Georgia's airspace in recent months, the Russian air force's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Igor Khvorov said on Wednesday.
"It is from Tbilisi, from Georgian media that we've learned our planes, allegedly, violated Georgia's airspace nine times in recent months," Khvorov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
"We declare with full responsibility that there have been no violations whatsoever," Khvorov said.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement last week that Georgia registered two violations of its border and intrusion of an aircraft from Russia into Georgian airspace on Aug. 21.
That was the second time this month that Georgia accused Russia of violating its airspace.
Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Ustiashvili said on Aug. 7 that Russian fighter jets the previous evening "violated Georgian airspace and fired a rocket near the Tsitelubani village, " which did not explode and caused no casualties.
The village is located close to Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Relations between Georgia, a former Soviet republic, and Russia have been strained by tensions over South Ossetia and another breakaway region Abkhazia.
The two regions broke away from Georgia's central government in the early 1990s. Russian peacekeepers have since been deployed there.
Source: Xinhua
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