(Ebru News/AP) A Georgian official said the alleged shooting down of a unmanned Georgian spy plane by a Russian fighter jet over the breakaway region of Abkhazia was an act of "open aggression" from Russia.

Temur Lakobashvili, State Minister for Reintegration:
"It is open aggression from Russian side because we have hard evidence proving that this is the Russian military aircraft shooting down Georgian UAV ."

Colonel David Nairashvili, Georgia's air force commander, on Monday that the video footage recorded by the plane before it was shot down on Sunday shows the attacking jet to be Russian.

The footage, showed an aircraft firing a missile in the direction of a plane and a few seconds later the screen goes blank.

The incident occurred over Abkhazia, a region that has had de-facto independence since breaking away from the Georgian government in the 1990s.

The Security Council scheduled a closed-door meeting for Wednesday to discuss Georgia's call for the UN's most powerful body to address Russia's alleged "military aggression" against the breakaway region of Abkhazia.