Georgian ruling party claims opposition plotted to take Sochi during Prigozhin’s mutiny in Russia

The chairman of the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party, Irakli Kobakhidze, claims that by reacting to the events in Russia, the opposition showed that it "uses any excuse to open a second front in Georgia".

Some representatives of the Georgian opposition planned to enter Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and even Sochi on tanks during the attempted mutiny of the Wagner group in Russia, the chairman of the ruling party Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, has said, TASS reports.

"We remember how the collective National Movement (a generalization of the Georgian opposition - TASS) rooted for Yevgeny Prigozhin, how it dedicated slogans and poems to him, how it planned, as Prigozhin succeeded, to enter on tanks not only into Abkhazia and Tskhinvali but also to take Sochi," Kobakhidze wrote on his Facebook page (banned in the Russian Federation, owned by the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).

As the politician notes, by reacting to the events in the Russian Federation, the opposition showed that "it uses any pretext to open a second front in Georgia". The opposition did not hide, in his words, that, if it had the appropriate opportunities, "it would have used the first chance to enter Abkhazia and Tskhinvali on tanks".

The party leader stressed that if a "second front" was opened in Georgia, they would also have to fight with the Abkhazians and Ossetians. "It is unacceptable that Georgians and Abkhazians, Georgians and Ossetians again shed each other's blood. This would be the greatest crime against future generations," Kobakhidze said in the post.

The principled position of the Georgian ruling party, according to Kobakhidze, is that "Georgia's territorial integrity must be restored only by peaceful means". Georgia needs to return not only the territories, he notes, but also to restore the confidence of the Abkhazians and Ossetians.