Khubutia addressed Ukrainians in Ukrainian.
“In this troubled hour, I want to express support to the Ukrainian people. We remember that we have a common enemy and this is Russia. Therefore, we are together and only together like never before. We will definitely win,” the journalist said.
On August 8–12, 2008, an armed conflict broke out between Russia and Georgia. Russian troops, together with South Ossetian formations, ousted Georgian troops from South Ossetia, which is officially part of Georgia, temporarily occupying a number of Georgian regions adjacent to the conflict zone. Later, the Russian Federation recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In addition to Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru and Syria did this. According to Georgian legislation, Abkhazia and South Ossetia are territories occupied by the Russian Federation.
During the conflict, as he writes “Georgia Online”408 Georgian citizens were killed (170 military personnel, 14 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and 224 civilians), 2232 people were injured.
In 2014, immediately after the occupation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other.
Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
February 17, 2022 in Donbass situation escalated sharply. According to the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation, 30 settlements were shelled in the territory controlled by Ukraineand were hit Kindergarten And several schoolswhere the children were at the time. Two soldiers and five civilians were injured.
February 18th and 19th shelling in Donbass continued.
Against this background, the militants “LNR” And “DNR” announced the evacuation of the population of ORLO and ORDO to Russia. The leader of the “LPR” militants, Leonid Pasechnik, whose statement published The media of the militants, in particular, claimed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had formed an “impressive strike force” and were allegedly planning a “deep breakthrough” in ORLO.
Later it turned out that the leaders of terrorist groups wrote down their “urgent” appeals on the evacuation of residents of ORDLO, published on February 18, two days before.
Journalists noticed that in 2008, a few days before the invasion of Georgia Russia evacuated the population of South Ossetia in the same wayas it happens in Donbass in 2022.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said there were no orders in Ukraine on release by force there are no temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Danilov also said about the threat of provocation from the Russian side.
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