De Facto Abkhaz Agency Reports 965,423 Crossings in Nine Months

The de facto State Security Service of occupied Abkhazia reports that it identifies and detains violators of the so-called border along the Enguri River section. The head of the agency, Dmitry Dbar, announced this at a meeting with de facto President Badra Gunba, where the operation of checkpoints during the first nine months of 2026 was discussed.

According to the de facto agency, those detained are taken to the district department of the security service, where the question of holding them responsible is decided "in the manner established by law". The statement does not specify how many people were detained on the Enguri section during the reporting period.

According to statistics for the first six months of 2026 from Sokhumi, more than 130 people were held responsible for violating the so-called border regime on the Enguri River section. In the same period, four criminal cases were initiated over the alleged unlawful crossing of the so-called border.

At the same meeting, the head of the de facto State Security Service's border department, Rustam Latipov, said that in the first nine months of 2026, 965,423 crossings of citizens and 52,780 movements of vehicles were recorded on the so-called Abkhaz-Georgian border in the direction of checkpoints.