( CNN ) -- Shots were fired Sunday near a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland , but the motorcade was not hit and there were no injuries , according to the Interior Ministry of Georgia . Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili , shown in France on November 13 , called the incident a provocation . The ministry said the motorcade , which carried Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski , was passing a checkpoint near Georgia 's South Ossetia region when the shots were fired . No other shooting was reported in the area . South Ossetia was the site of intense conflict between Russian and Georgian troops in August . The shots were fired from Russian-controlled territory as the motorcade passed , the ministry said . Saakashvili later told reporters the incident `` clearly was intended as a provocation . '' He said that he would not have taken his Polish counterpart into danger intentionally and that the incident showed `` you are dealing with unpredictable people '' in the disputed area . Meanwhile , the Russian news agency Interfax said the command of the Russian peacekeeping force in South Ossetia denied blame for the gunfire . `` Allegations that Russian military personnel were involved in the fire against the motorcade are not true . An attack on the motorcade from our military personnel is out of the question , '' a peacekeeping force spokesman said , according to Interfax . The news agency also quoted a senior South Ossetian official as saying that South Ossetia `` has nothing to do '' with the incident . `` The Georgian side is once again disseminating misinformation , '' South Ossetian Deputy Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseyev told Interfax . Tensions have remained high in the area since fighting between Russian and Georgian troops broke out in August . Georgia launched a campaign against South Ossetia , a Russian-backed separatist territory , on August 7 . The following day , Russian tanks , troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian territory , Abkhazia , advancing into Georgian cities across the administrative borders with those regions . The two sides blamed each other for starting the conflict and have accused each other of a variety of offenses leading up to and during the fighting , including ethnic cleansing .
NEW : Russian peacekeepers , South Ossetia deny involvement in shooting . Leaders ' motorcade was not hit , and there were no injuries , Interior officials say . Title: Why do we have to wait for the sun to rise before it's time to go outside? Motorcade was passing a checkpoint near Georgia 's South Ossetia . The shots were fired from Russian-controlled territory , ministry officials say .