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Wait, Putin isn’t even done with Ukraine and he is already starting another “special operation” in Georgia?
They’ve already occupied part of Georgia. I don’t think there’s actual fighting going on the (though there might be), but the Russians keep moving the actual, physical border markers farther into Georgian territory every year. After Ukraine was invaded, fought back and started making headway against Russia, Georgia kinda stuck it’s head up and said they’d love to be liberated too - except they never really did anything about it themselves, just mentioned it’d be nice if the Russians could be made to leave Georgian territory.
To be fair, I’m not sure Georgia is actually in a position to do much of anything, but with the Russians so occupied in Ukraine, it seems the most advantageous time in decades to at least try.
This is the aftermath of an earlier
imperialistic conquestspecial operation, they are putting the port in an occupied part of Georgia.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“We unanimously and firmly condemn Russia’s occupation, militarisation and other actions aimed at annexation of the occupied regions of Georgia, a new expression of which is the opening of a permanent Russian naval base in Ochamchire port,” read the MPs’ statement.
Weeks earlier Abkhazia’s de facto leader, Aslan Bzhania, had confirmed an agreement had been signed with the Kremlin on a permanent naval base in the Black Sea port of Ochamchire.
He says the government is more focused on Georgian citizens being killed or kidnapped by Russian forces near the line of occupation that separates Georgia from its breakaway territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
BBC Newsnight and Verify have analysed satellite imagery that indicates new dredging and construction work at the port, since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
According to Abkhazia’s de facto administration, that dredging work meant Ochamchire could now host larger cargo ships with a displacement volume of up to 13,000 tonnes.
Not only does that play into Georgian fears of being sucked into the war, but there are concerns that Tbilisi’s own plans for a mega-infrastructure project on the Black Sea coast could be impeded.
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