Via BBC News -
Georgian forces have fired at an aircraft they believed to be Russian after it violated Georgian airspace, a senior government official said.
Tbilisi could not confirm whether the plane was shot down, but said that a nearby section of forest, in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge, was on fire.
Russia dismissed the claim, and an air force spokesman called it "the latest provocation aimed against us".
The two ex-USSR states' relations have been strained since a 2006 spy row.
Earlier this month, Georgia said that two Russian planes had violated its border around the same area.
In a separate incident, Georgia also claimed a Russian plane had dropped a missile near the capital, Tblisi.
Russia strongly denied the accusations.
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