Georgia has so far not provided military assistance to Ukraine. The authorities in Tbilisi also refused to return the Buk systems that Kyiv had handed over to the Georgian army during the war with Russia in 2008, Andriy Kasyanov, charge d’affaires of Ukraine in Georgia, wrote in a publication published on the Ukrainian Pravda website.
“The Ukrainian side is consistent in its requests addressed to all international partners, including Georgiafor the supply of weapons, military equipment and ammunition,” Kasyanov wrote. He recalled that this issue was raised at the very beginning of the military invasion Russia to Ukraine.
Kasyanov wrote that Ukraine Among other things, it asked Georgia to return the Buk complexes that Kyiv had handed over to Tbilisi in 2008 during the war with Russia.
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Kyiv also asked the Georgian authorities to hand over the Javelin anti-tank systems that Georgia had received from the United States. According to Kasyanov, Washington agreed to such a solution and even proposed replacing the systems with newer ones.
“Although the Georgian government has categorically refused to provide military assistance to Ukraine, Kyiv opposes the use of this issue in internal political disputes and rejects any accusations of trying to draw Georgia into a war with the Russian Federation,” added the diplomat.
Statement by the authorities in Tbilisi
In late December, Georgia’s Iraklia Prime Minister Garibashvili said that Tbilisi’s official actions to support Ukraine were “sufficient”.
Earlier, Georgia provided Ukraine with over half a million dollars for the purchase of electricity generators, as well as over 1,120 tons of humanitarian aid, collected with the participation of, among others, social organizations, political parties and entrepreneurs.
Ukrainian Truth, tvn24.pl
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