Western countries are trying to convince Tbilisi of the need to open a “second front” against Russia in connection with the events in Ukraine, noting that now is an opportune moment to regain control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia. According to TASS, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin said this during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
“We see the persistent attempts of Washington, Brussels, London to convince the Georgian leadership of the need to open the so-called second front. They see that the situation on the battlefield is not in favor of Ukraine,” Naryshkin said.
He added that the West is convincing Tbilisi that now is a good time to regain control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
In Georgia, individual Western and Ukrainian politicians are regularly accused of trying to drag the country into a military conflict with Russia. The President of the Republic, Salome Zurabishvili, said earlier that she considers talk about a “second front” to be conspiracy theories.
On April 3, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that no one was able to stop hostilities in Ukraine, as a result of which large areas of the country “turned into a training ground.” As the prime minister stressed, the plan of Georgia’s enemies to “Ukrainize the country”, that is, turn it into the same training ground, and open a “second front” against the Russian Federation, failed. Garibashvili noted that economic growth, reduction of inflation and poverty observed in the country are impossible without maintaining peace.
Source: Rosbalt
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