Hey Georgia’s National Security Service accused Georgi Lortkipanidze, deputy head of Ukrainian military counterintelligence, of conspiring to “violently overthrow the government” in collusion with a “foreign state.”
Lortkipanidze is the former Deputy Minister of the Interior of Georgia (equivalent to the Ministry of the Interior).
Georgian National Security also designated the former bodyguard of former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who previously held official positions in Ukraine, as one of the accomplices of Georgians fighting Russian forces on Ukrainian territory.
Georgia’s National Security Service says some of these people “are being trained near the border between Ukraine and Poland.”
According to an official statement, the alleged plan called for anti-government demonstrations in Tbilisi “in October and December,” when the next assessments of Georgia’s progress in the EU accession process should be published.
The government in Tbilisi is accused of cooperating with the Kremlin, despite the deployment of Russian forces in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia since Moscow’s 2008 invasion.
In July, Kiev summoned the Georgian ambassador, accusing Tbilisi of torturing Mikheil Saakashvili, also a Ukrainian citizen and adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in prison.
In June 2022, the European Union rejected candidate status for Georgia, granting it to Ukraine and Moldova.
Brussels demands Tbilisi reforms in the judicial and electoral system, as well as guarantees on freedom of the press and “measures to combat the oligarchs.”
In early March, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Tbilisi, accusing the government of straying from the country’s pro-Western aspirations.
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