Mikheil Saakashvili again spoke about the inevitable victory of Ukraine over Russia

Ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who is convicted and is in the clinic, again expressed confidence in Ukraine's victory in the war with the Russian Federation. He stated that Georgia will also be able to return its occupied lands (Abkhazia and South Ossetia), and does not exclude that the country will have a common border with Ukraine on the Black Sea coast. “It is necessary to prepare for the arrangement of the Georgian-Ukrainian border on the Psou River,” he wrote on his Facebook account.

The current president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, has proposed other forms of punishment against Saakashvili.
When asked by the France 24 agency about pardoning the former head of state, Zurabishvili replied that she was taking some measures to alleviate the situation. “There are electronic bracelets and other forms of punishment that are more in line with what is expected of an EU accession country,” she said. At the same time, she had a clear position on the issue of pardoning Saakashvili: "No and never." Now Zurabishvili avoids a direct answer to this topic.

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