Georgian MFA confirms death of two Georgian volunteers in Ukraine
The foreign office said the Georgian Government would ensure the bringing back of the bodies of Georgian citizens Gia Beriashvili and Davit Ratiani. Photo: MFA of Georgia
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has officially confirmed on Friday the death of two Georgian volunteers in combat action in Ukraine.
The foreign office said the Georgian Government would ensure the bringing back of the bodies of Georgian citizens Gia Beriashvili and Davit Ratiani.
Relevant procedures have already been started by the Georgian Embassy in Ukraine, the MFA also added.
Andrei Kasyanov, the Representative of the Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia, on Friday expressed his gratitude to citizens and authorities of Georgia for their humanitarian assistance to Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
The Georgian Education Ministry’s Office of Resource Officers of Educational Institutions will offer free psychosocial counselling to Ukrainian children and adolescents stranded in Georgia due to war in there home country.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili “has assured me” the Georgian Government is doing its best to stop the Russian aggression against Ukraine, uphold democratic values and support the freedom and sovereignty of the country, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Prime Minister of Poland, said on Thursday after his meeting with the Georgian counterpart.
Russia’s war against Ukraine must be stopped, with Europe ensuring “such horror and aggression” never repeats “in our common home”, Irakli Chikovani, MP from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party said on Wednesday.
Giorgi Zakarashvili, the Ambassador of Georgia to Ukraine, said the Georgian side was “actively cooperating” with the relevant structures in Ukraine to ensure the transportation of the bodies of two Georgian volunteers who had died in war in Ukraine.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili expressed his condolences over the death of three Georgian citizens in Ukraine on Saturday.
Bodies of two Georgian volunteers, Gia Beriashvili and Davit Ratiani, killed in combat action in Ukraine, have been transferred to Georgia earlier today.
David Ratiani and Gia Beriashvili, the two Georgian volunteers killed in combat action in Ukraine, were buried with military honours in Tbilisi on Saturday.
A fourth Georgian volunteer has died in combat action near the Ukrainian city of Irpin, the Georgian Foreign Ministry confirmed to Radio Liberty on Saturday.
Jambulat Khoperia has become the latest casualty in the war in Ukraine among Georgian volunteers after being recently involved in combat action near Kherson.
The body of Jambulat Khoperia, the Georgian volunteer who died in Ukraine last week following combat action in the ongoing war, was repatriated to Georgia on Thursday morning.