Russian website: Georgia ignores Ukraine's proposal to open "another front" against Russia

The Russian "News ru" website published a

in which it said that the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov called for the opening of "another front" against Russia, without concealing the fact that he had high hopes, especially on Georgia, which ignored his call, according to the site.

The report indicated that Danilov denounced on local television what he considered the "neutral position" of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, as the Georgian authorities refused to impose anti-Russian sanctions for economic reasons, given the increase in trade exchanges between the two countries on an annual basis, reaching a volume of 1.6 billion dollars last year.

Russia also accounts for 12% of Georgian exports, which are important indicators for a country with a population of 3,730 thousand people.

However, Danilov believes that "Georgia's position is inappropriate", and that the confrontation with Moscow goes beyond economic relations.

Resentment in Georgia

The site stated that the Ukrainian official's position angered Georgian political analyst Arkel Sikharulidze, who in an interview expressed his regret to the Ukrainian people for the presence of such people in the leadership of their country.

Speaking about the "disputed territories" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose independence Russia has recognized, Sikharulidze stressed that the Georgian authorities and the opposition have long reached a consensus that requires their peaceful integration on the basis of reconciliation among all parties in Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The report indicated that the statements of the Ukrainian official - in which he called on Georgia to restore Abkhazia and South Ossetia and "open another front" against Russia - did not provoke violent reactions among Georgian politicians, some of whom only addressed this issue on the communication sites without discussing it in the media.

morally unacceptable

For example, the leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Mikhail Sarveladze, said that the new conflicts in the map of the post-Soviet space "will not help Ukraine and do not represent a solution to its crisis, and opening fronts and escalation are undesirable anyway."

Opposition MP Sandor Rakvyashvili also described the Ukrainian official's statement as "morally unacceptable".

In turn, Tornik Sharashinidze, a political scientist in Tbilisi, confirmed in an interview that the Georgian authorities are closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine and assessing what is happening, and will not respond sharply to such statements given the situation in Ukraine, and Georgia does not refuse to restore the autonomous regions, but not by military means.

deeper meaning

For his part, Alexander Zhilin, a military expert and director of the Moscow Center for Applied Social Studies, cautioned - according to the report - that the individual condemnation of some Georgian deputies to the Ukrainian official's call and the authorities' silence should not be understood as evidence of a rupture between Tbilisi and Kiev.

Zhilin believes that the Ukrainian official's call has a deeper meaning than Tbilisi understood, or perhaps the Georgian authorities pretended as a direct call to attack Russian bases in both Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Kyiv's call to open "another front" can be considered a reference to the anti-Russian forces to unite their ranks.

The expert noted that the West's plans also include neutralizing the Collective Security Organization, whose member states vote "against Russia" at the United Nations.

The report pointed out that the "anti-Russian conspiracy" is an idea far from reality, and even with the presence of radical forces in many of the former republics of the Soviet Union, part of these societies are still pro-Russian with the exception of Ukraine and the Baltic states.