None of the families of Georgians detained at village Kere have been contacted yet. Levan Lapachi and Guram Kolatashvili were arrested by Russian occupants at the occupation line. According to eyewitnesses, they were in the church of the Virgin Mary, when they were arrested.

Both of them are supposedly charged for illegally crossing the border.

"In our controlled territory, they were in the shrine and were abducted from there," -says Noshrevan Coltashvili.