The Georgian opposition “Collective National Movement” planned to enter Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Sochi in the event of a successful mutiny by PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin on military equipment, said Irakli Kobakhidze, chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party.
According to Mtavari, Kobakhidze said that the opposition was “urged to calmly observe what was happening”, but “the radical opposition did not heed the advice.” “We all remember how the ‘Collective National Movement’ welcomed Prigozhin, how they dedicated speeches and poems to him, how, in the wake of Prigozhin’s success, he planned not only to enter Abkhazia and Tskhinval with tanks (the capital of South Ossetia. – RBC), but also to capture Sochi and etc.,” Kobakhidze noted. At the same time, he did not specify where the opposition could get weapons from.
According to him, the Georgian opposition “again demonstrated a desire to open a second front” and “if they had the appropriate leverage,” they would enter both republics on tanks.
Kobakhidze stressed that he considers the movement “a party of war and betrayal.” In his opinion, the oppositionists acted “on instructions from outside” and want to resist the “restoration of trust” between Georgians, Abkhazians and Ossetians. The politician added that the ruling party will seek to restore the country’s territorial integrity only by peaceful means.
Source: Rosbalt
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