The President of Georgia said the country’s Government was being “realistic” about what it could do for Ukraine at this stage of the war in the latter. She talks about this issue in an interview with Germany’s Deutsche Welle broadcaster.

“They [Ukraine] have had some harsh words for different partners, including [the US Secretary of State] Blinken when he was coming, saying “Don’t bring chocolates, bring arms!” They would like to also receive arms from Georgia, to have Georgia open a “second front”. All of that is not possible. I think that the Georgian Government is just being more realistic about what Georgia can do at this stage.

Georgia has two occupied territories, one of which is now talking about a referendum to join Russia. Clearly we have to be careful because we don’t have many means and nobody would be ready to support Georgia in the same way, but that doesn’t in any way change the level of solidarity [for Ukraine] that we have”, - explained Salome Zourabichvili.