Georgian President marks 1,000 days of Ukraine’s fight against Russia, expresses solidarity

Georgia’s President, Salome Zourabichvili, on Tuesday expressed her solidarity with Ukraine, marking the 1,000th day of its fight against Russian aggression.

In a video address, Zourabichvili said – “Ukrainian friends, for 1,000 days you have been fighting to defend your country, your independence, your freedom, and you are waging this fight on behalf of all Europeans who want to defend their freedom from Russian imperialism”.

She emphasized that Ukraine’s struggle “is not just for its own independence, but for the protection of European values”.

“It may be a coincidence,” the President continued, “but it is not without doubt that today in [Georgia’s Russian-occupied] Abkhazia, our citizens are opposing another attempt by Russia to take new steps towards the annexation of Abkhazia”.

She concluded with a message that it “will not succeed anywhere where people stand for freedom and independence. They will get over it”.