The Russian Foreign Ministry has accused Ukraine and the European Union of attempting to draw Georgia into a new armed conflict against Russia. This assertion was made in a statement issued on Saturday to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the war in Georgia.
In its statement, Russian diplomacy also highlighted the tensions between Tbilisi and the two breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose independence has only been recognized by a handful of countries, including Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Syria.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, which maintains military bases in both separatist territories, asserted that “a real contribution to stabilizing the situation in border areas would consist of initiating the process of delineating state borders between Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, followed by their physical demarcation.”
“This task has particular significance in the context of the West’s attempts, the Nazi regime in Kyiv, and radical Georgian politicians to lure Tbilisi into new bloody ventures in the South Caucasus,” the statement added, as reported by Agerpres.
Russia Denounces Attempts to Reinterpret 2008 Events
In the same statement, Moscow condemned what it described as “attempts within Georgian society to reinterpret the events of August 2008,” when Georgia and Russia engaged in a five-day war over South Ossetia. During this conflict, Russian forces repelled a Georgian assault on the pro-Russian separatist territory.
Following the conflict, Russia recognized both South Ossetia and Abkhazia, located in the Black Sea region, as independent states.
The Russian Foreign Ministry welcomed the ruling party, Georgian Dream, which the opposition accuses of being pro-Moscow, for holding former president Mikheil Saakashvili fully responsible for the outbreak of the armed conflict in August 2008.
