On August 8, in the park area on Lavrska Street in Kyiv, not far from the Swiss Embassy in Ukraine, on the initiative of our Association and in cooperation with the Georgian community of the Ukrainian capital, with the participation of people’s deputies, a picket rally was held in connection with the anniversary of the beginning of the Russian-Georgian war.
The participants of the action focused the attention of the numerous media present on several important facts: the relationship between Russia’s unpunished war against Georgia in 2008 with the Kremlin’s previous military actions in Moldova and the subsequent Russian attempt to annex Ukrainian Crimea in 2014, Russia’s unleashing of war in the East of Ukraine, as well as the current full-scale aggression of Moscow, which has been going on for the third year.
In addition, as the picketers emphasized, for 16 years now the Kremlin’s illegal actions in Georgia, including “the recognition by the Kremlin of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia” and further support for the regimes there, have not had an adequate response from the West. It was the weak response to the Russian-Georgian war that pushed the Russian authorities to further aggression.
People’s Deputy Elizaveta Bogutskaya called on the Georgian government to stop implementing pro-Russian policies and dismiss former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili at the rally. The action took place with a slight delay and a certain change of location due to the fact that before it began, an object similar to an explosive device was found near the Swiss Embassy in Kyiv. The investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Speaking to those gathered, Association expert Professor Borys Babin stated, that he views the incident with probable explosives as a possible reaction of circles involved in the aggressor to the public activity of Georgians and Ukrainians. He further pointed out that if the Swiss authorities needed proof of inadequacy from the Russian puppeteers and their apostates, they certainly got it today.
The expert also recalled the case of Karl Eckstein, an “old friend” of the occupation of Crimea and formally a Swiss citizen, who was incorporated by Russian intelligence into “legal services” in the state enterprise “Document” for cryptography, databases and discrediting Ukraine’s mobilization activities in Europe, and that case was exposed the day before yesterday by journalists, with the assistance of the ARC.
Press attaché of the Association
Ruslan Deremedved
