The Georgian authorities content themselves with providing some humanitarian supplies to Ukraine without sending military aid there, despite some Georgian parties calling on the country to abandon its policy of neutrality and support Kyiv directly.

The newspaper "Vezglyad" quoted the head of the Fourth Department of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Denis Gonchar, saying that Russia realizes that Georgia, through a policy of neutrality, aims to protect its interests by overcoming Western pressures, as Kyiv and Western capitals made an appeal to Tbilisi, demanding the opening of a "front again" against Russia, according to the newspaper.

According to the Russian newspaper, the head of the Georgian Fighting Corps in Ukraine, Mamuka Mamolashvili, spoke about his work to recruit citizens into the Ukrainian armed forces, pledging to grant compensation estimated at about two thousand dollars per month.


ideology

The report's authors, Rafael Fakhrodinov and Dmitry Alexandrov, explained that the investigation conducted by PosTV proved that some Georgians go to fight for Kyiv for ideological reasons, while others join the battlefield only for money.

Knowing that the ruling party stressed the need to give up the Georgian passport once joining the battlefield inside another country.

For his part, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that activists of the United National Movement, led by former President Mikheil Saakashvili, are often recruited.

Referring to the 2008 war, as well as conflicts with Abkhazians and Ossetians in the early 1990s, Garibashvili said, "We have already fought many times," and suggested the opposition join themselves on the Ukrainian front.

According to the Prime Minister, the battles raging inside the Ukrainian territory claimed the lives of 33 Georgian citizens.


to retreat

The authors quote Golbat Rtskiladze, director of the Eurasia Institute in Georgia, as saying that compared to last March, pro-Ukrainian sentiments declined due to the behavior of Kyiv itself, noting at the same time that anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian sentiments are still simmering and fueled by a number of parties and non-governmental organizations. And the anti-Russian media.

"Although we did not conduct opinion polls on the attitude towards the Georgians fighting on the side of Ukraine, in my opinion many people sympathize with them because they claim to be fighting Russia for ideological reasons. Even at the level of the executive branch, Georgia calls them heroes, with some reservations," added Rtskiladze. .

The director of the Institute for the Study of Development Problems in the Eurasian Economic Union, Vladimir Libekhin, says that when the Russian military operation launched, many Georgians feared the fall of Ukraine quickly, and then they would encounter a similar stimulus after that, which prompted some to call for the opening of a second front against Russia.

Lebekhin stresses the fact that there are many Georgians who just want to make money from the conflict, which prompts them to join the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces.

The authors indicated that Denis Gonchar does not rule out an improvement in relations between Russia and Georgia, to the extent that Moscow will resume direct flights to Tbilisi and cancel the visa regime for Georgians.