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MOnday, October 3, 2022
Prepared by Messenger Staff

Illegal 'borderization' carried out near the village Karapila, State Security Service of Georgia says

According to the information of the State Security Service, representatives of the Russian occupation forces carried out illegal so-called borderization.

"The hotline has been activated by the State Security Service. The issue will be discussed at the incident prevention and response mechanism meeting. The monitoring mission of the European Union and the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions have been informed about the illegal process," State Security Service said.



Mikheil Saakashvili publishes letter from prison

The third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, published a letter titled "365 days of captivity" one year after his arrest. In the letter, he wrote that the ongoing war in Ukraine is also the war of the Georgians, where the issue of Georgia's presence or absence is decided.

"I want to ask a question - how is it possible that the creator of the modern army is watching this great battle from prison? If nothing else, I should now be on the front line with body armor and a machine gun. As a representative of the highest officials of Ukraine and as an ordinary citizen of Ukraine, as a patriot of Georgia, I am obliged to be there where the fate of Ukraine and Georgia is decided.

We will definitely win. I say this as the commander-in-chief, who for the first time experienced a full-scale Russian attack and saved our country with you. I am no longer interested in the internal political differences of Georgia, such a large-scale event is taking place in the world, where I am also known and my struggle with Russia is known. Freedom or death," he wrote.

Mikheil Saakashvili was arrested on October 1, 2021 in Tbilisi.



'We strongly condemn the illegal annexation of 4 regions of Ukraine by Russia' Nikoloz Samkharadze says

Nikoloz Samkharadze, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, responded to the announcement of the annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"We strongly condemn the illegal annexation of four regions of Ukraine by Russia. This decision has no international legitimacy and is against the principles of international law.

The territorial integrity of sovereign nations is inviolable and it is not allowed to change borders by force," wrote Nikoloz Samkharadze on Twitter.

At the ceremony held in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the accession of 4 regions of Ukraine - Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia to Russia.