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Georgia reportedly revokes gun permits for Georgian fighters in Ukraine after Russian court order
Volunteer fighter Rati Burduli, who has been declared a terrorist in Russia, shared the purported order from Georgia’s Interior Ministry.
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Georgian Security Service accuses Georgian Legion and others of plotting coup
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) has claimed to be investigating an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government by Ukraine’s deputy director of counterintelligence, the Georgian Legion, and a former bodyguard of Mikheil Saakashvili. The SSG claimed that ‘certain groups in and outside Georgia’ were conspiring to violently topple the government in October–December through public uproar generated by accusing the government of being pro-Russian. The SSG did not provide evidence to suppo
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Georgian Government threatens to strip Ukraine fighters of citizenship
The chair of Georgia’s ruling party, along with other leading party members, has threatened to strip Georgians fighting against Russia in Ukraine of their citizenship. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Irakli Kobakhidze stated that any Georgian national who joined the armed forces of another country would lose their Georgian citizenship. ‘If anyone leaves Georgia and enrols, for instance, in the armed forces of Ukraine, it follows that they become a citizen of Ukraine’, he said. Kobakh
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Georgia’s former defence minister goes to war
A former Defence Minister of Georgia, Irakli Okruashvili is now fighting to defend Kyiv as part of Ukraine’s International Legion. Between his duties on the front, Okruashvili found time to speak with OC Media about the battle for Ukraine. ‘We must have been under intense fire for more than two days, and this time there were losses on both sides’, the 48-year-old former minister told OC Media during an interview by phone on 14 March. Speaking of the hardest fighting he had witnessed so far,
