"The situation in the Gali District is tense. Practically every day Abkhazia is subject to strikes from Georgian territory," said Gen. Anatoly Zaitsev, who will be in charge of coordinating the operations.
In an interview with the Abaza TV channel, Zaitsev, the head of Abkhazia's General Staff, said that the gunfire was targeted at Abkhazian border guards and Russian checkpoints.
Last week, four Abkhaz nationals, including a senior counterintelligence officer, Eduard Emin-zade, were killed and a border outpost came under a fire in the area. The killings have increased tension between Abkhazia and Georgia.
The tasks of the unit will include "the destruction of subversive, intelligence and terrorist enemy groups," Zaitsev said, adding that an action plan had been drafted and the group would "be equipped with powerful weapons."
Sergei Bagapsh held an emergency meeting of the separatist security council on Sunday which discussed the latest developments in the Gali District. The Abkhaz leader accused Tbilisi of launching a large-scale terror campaign against Abkhazia, to try and annex the Gali District from Abkhazia.
Bagapsh ordered "an adequate response to all the provocations by the Georgian side using all the forces and means at their disposal." He also slammed the EU monitors, who took over from Russian peacekeepers in buffer zones along the border in early October, for ignoring "armed" attacks by Georgia.
Russia recognized Abkhazia and another Georgian rebel republic, South Ossetia, as independent states on August 26. So far, only Nicaragua has followed suit.
The move came after a five-day war between Russia and Georgia that began when Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia in a bid to regain the breakaway province.
