This war could have been avoided, the former commander-in-chief, Mikheil Saakashvili, showed great irresponsibility, while our soldiers showed great heroism. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia.

“First of all, I want to express my condolences to our fallen heroes, their families, I bow before the bright memory of our heroes. I would like to once again express our deepest condolences to their families. Our heroes died heroically in this war. It was a terrible tragedy that befell our country and people.

It was the heaviest ordeal, which killed more than 400 of our citizens, injured more than 2,000, and we got very heavy results from this war. More than 150 settlements were occupied, we also lost several villages, Kodori valley. This war brought illegal occupation and also temporary occupation of our indigenous territories, so called recognition, which brought very heavy consequences to our country.

We have repeatedly said that this war could have been avoided. I know information about how the events developed. I would like to point out once again that the former commander-in-chief showed great irresponsibility when our heroic soldiers showed great heroism and self-sacrifice.

Many examples of heroism have been left to our people and future generations. Then we saw the most disgraceful behavior of the former commander-in-chief. Do you remember falling to the ground at the sound of a plane? The whole society saw a great shame, not only us, the whole world”, - said Irakli Garibashvili.