Ukrainian MP of Georgian origin, David Arakhamia, on Thursday slammed the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party Irakli Kobakhidze, who had called him a “man without homeland”, after blaming him for the affiliation with the domestic United National Movement and taking actions to “drag Georgia” into the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. 

“Due to collaborators like you, I lost my home in my homeland [ in reference to Georgia’s currently Russian-occupied Abkhazia region]. The time will come and the country will learn that you are using Georgia as a platform for your political interests, and in fact Russia is your homeland, where you will have to flee, because you will not be accepted anywhere else”, Arakhamia said in his social media post. 

“By getting rid of people like you, both Georgia and Ukraine will celebrate the victory over the enemy, which, as you can see, we are successfully doing”, he added. 

Georgian officials alleged the domestic opposition and their “allies” in Ukraine stood behind president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “unfounded allegations” on Monday, in which he accused the Georgian government of “killing” Mikheil Saakashvili, the imprisoned former president of Georgia who currently holds Ukrainian citizenship, on the “instructions” of the Kremlin, and tasking the country’s foreign office to send the Georgian ambassador back to Tbilisi for consultations over the former president’s extradition.