7 August marks 16 years since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s armed aggression against Georgia, as a result of which Russia killed hundreds of innocent people, and occupied Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia.
The Russian occupation has turned these Georgian regions into a grey zone where lawlessness prevails, prospects are lacking, and human rights are neglected.
The hostilities stopped in August 2008, but Russia’s aggression against Georgia did not end there. Moscow continued the so-called “borderization”, that is, the creeping annexation of Georgian territory, pressure, propaganda, and other hybrid methods of intervention.
Ukraine supports the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognized borders and strongly condemns the aggressive policy of the Kremlin.
Russia must withdraw its troops from the sovereign territory of Georgia under the 2008 ceasefire agreement and revoke the recognition of the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as so-called “independent states”.
Source: Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: https://cutt.ly/SexBStkJ
