“Results of Maidan”: Georgian prime minister blamed Ukrainians for the war
30 May 2024 15:14
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze believes that the alleged protests on the Maidan in autumn 2013-winter 2014 collapsed the Ukrainian economy and led to a war there. The politician expressed this opinion to a journalist of the First Channel, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
According to the head of the government, as for parallels between Maidan and the processes taking place in Georgia, no one in Georgia is worthy of Maidan.
“As for the parallels between Maidan and the processes taking place in Georgia, I want to tell everyone that no one in Georgia is worthy of Maidan. I want to remind what the results of Maidan were for Ukraine,” Irakli Kobakhidze said.
The politician believes that after President Viktor Yanukovych fled, the new government was “appointed from outside”. In addition, the forces that did this, no longer took responsibility for the events then taking place in Ukraine.
“Before 2013 it was a state that had territorial integrity, a $200 billion economy, and today the country is in decline, its economy after so many years has been qualitatively reduced, 20% of Ukraine’s territories are occupied, tens of thousands of people have died, and no one takes responsibility for this,” the head of the Georgian government said.
Kobakhidze also expressed the opinion that the same thing can happen to Georgia as to Ukraine if the state “does not care about independence”.
What Irakli Kobakhidze said about Ukraine earlier
It should be noted that this is not the only scandalous statement by Irakli Kobakhidze regarding Ukraine. On 20 May, during a cabinet meeting, the prime minister“intimidated” his opponents with the “Ukrainian scenario”.
“I want to remind everyone once again what it means to share the fate of Ukraine and what is the situation in Ukraine now. 2/3 of young people aged 19-24 have either left the country or died. The economy is ruined, in the first year alone they had a 30% drop in the economy, which means total disaster. Infrastructure is destroyed, today Russia occupies 2.5 times more territory than at the beginning of the war,” Kobakhidze said, but did not specify where he got such statistics from.
At the beginning of February 2024, Irakli Kobakhidze accused Ukraine of seeking to open a “second front” in his country. Note that at the time he was not the head of the Georgian government.
“When someone tries to make Georgia the object of Russian aggression outside the country, this is a very serious development. This once again confirms what, in principle, high-ranking officials of the Ukrainian government have been openly talking about, that they wanted and probably still want a second front in our country,” the politician said.
