Josep Borrell, the European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Marija Pejčinović Burić, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, have reacted to the killing of Georgian citizen Tamaz Ginturi by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in central Georgia on Monday and illegal detention of another. 

“The EU strongly condemns the killing of a Georgian citizen and the detention of another one by the Russian border guards in Kirbali. We call for an immediate release.Russian military presence in the Georgian occupied breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is illegal”, Borrell tweeted. 

Extending her condolences over the death, Marija Pejčinović Burić called for the release of the abducted.