Georgia is setting up two army groups on the border with the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia as part of its plans to launch strikes at the republic from the direction of Znauri and Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Interior Minister Robert Guliyev told Interfax by phone on Thursday. \"By concentrating their forces in two directions - Tskhinvali and Znauri - the Georgian authorities are entrusting the task of surrounding Tskhinvali and closing the Trans-Caucasus highway to traffic traveling to [Russia\'s republic of] North Ossetia to these army groups. This will become possible as a result of two parallel strikes,\" Guliyev said. \"An intelligence report suggests that up to ten T-72 tanks, some of which Tbilisi purchased in Romania and some other tanks that were repaired in Ukraine, have been deployed in Georgia\'s Kareli district alone. These tanks are expected to take part in an invasion of South Ossetia\'s Znauri district,\" he said. (Interfax)