19:00, 20 January 2012

The military refuted the information of mass disease among Russian soldiers in South Ossetia

Committee of Soldiers' Mothers reported mass disease among the servicemen of a Russian military base in South Ossetia which the command of Sothern military Okgug called fiction.

"The information coming from Committee of Soldiers' Mothers of Stavropol region about allegedly mass disease of the servicemen caused by insect bites through infected mattresses and a statement that the command of the base takes no measures for rendering medical aid is untrue. Sanitary epidemiological situation in the military base is normal, the base is completely supplied with medications", Head of Press service of Southern Military Okrug of Russia colonel Igor Gorbul informed.

On January, 19, a number of mass media spread an information of an epidemic caused by insect bites among the servicemen of military unit No 66431 dislocated in Tskhinvali, RIA "Novosti" reports. According to the web-site of Civil initiative "A Citizen and the Army", "about half of the company are ill but the servicemen are getting practically no medical aid. Only the soldiers who are in a grave state are taken to hospital".