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| 'They wanted to drag us into a conflict.' Georgia thwarted Ukrainian terrorist attack in Voronezh |
| 2024-02-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan [REGNUM] Georgian authorities prevented a large-scale terrorist attack that Ukraine tried to organize against Russia. They intercepted 6 bombs with C-4 explosive, “manufactured by a high-level specialist, designed for a wide range of destruction.” The bombs themselves were on their way to Voronezh, and some of them were intercepted at the Russian-Georgian border, and some in Tbilisi. Moreover, we are not talking about the fact that Georgian security forces accidentally found something there during a search. In Tbilisi they are talking about a large-scale multi-stage operation, where terrorists were led for some time in order to identify the entire chain of those involved. As a result, the authorities reported that the cargo route ran from Odessa through Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey (that is, along the Black Sea coast), and seven Georgian citizens, three Ukrainians and two Armenians were involved in organizing the terrorist attack. The investigation does not yet have information about whether they knew about the explosives themselves or simply participated in the transportation, but Tbilisi assures that one person knew for sure. Candidate for deputy of the Kiev district of the local council of the Odessa region in 2020 from the Servant of the People party Andrei Sharashidze, who, according to the Georgian State Security Service, was the organizer of the preparations. This whole story will continue to grow with details, data and comments. However, now it raises a whole series of questions that can and should be answered. Question one: why should Georgians save Russians? The answer to this question is very simple: the Georgians saved not so much the Russians as they saved themselves. Your reputation, your present and your future. “No mentally healthy head of the intelligence services of any country would like it if outsiders were carrying explosives around his country without his knowledge in order to carry out a terrorist attack in another country. Georgia, in addition, would like to avoid a situation where it would be drawn into a conflict with Russia against its will,” explains Nikolai Silaev, leading researcher at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO, to IA Regnum. It is important to understand here that the victims of this terrorist attack could have been not only Russians, but also Georgians. In a statement, the Georgian special services indicated that part of the explosives, which the terrorists, at the direction of the Ukrainian special services, were transporting to Voronezh, should have remained on the territory of Georgia itself. Moreover, we could talk about both an explosion and Georgia being drawn into the conflict. For example, if this explosive were “found” in Tbilisi after its analogues were detonated in Russia. Then the West could make Georgia an accomplice to the crime. “Perhaps this was the last straw that forced the leadership of the Georgian intelligence services to decide to arrest and disclose information about this provocation of the Ukrainian and American intelligence services,” explains Nikita Mendkovich, head of the Eurasian Analytical Club, to Regnum. Actually, this is the answer to the second question: why does Georgia need to save the Russians so demonstratively. After all, Georgia, let us remind you, is part of the Western bloc along with Ukraine. And Kyiv and Western sponsors are unlikely to like the fact that the Georgians not only prevented the terrorist attack, but also openly named the Ukrainians as the organizers. Georgia is well aware that both Ukraine and the West are actively trying to drag it into a confrontation with Russia. “As you know, as part of the American strategy, the West is seeking to turn Georgia and other CIS countries into new fronts against Russia in order to slow down the liberation of Ukraine and Moscow’s victory in the Northeast Military District. That is, they are trying to turn Georgia into a war zone, which the Georgian special services and authorities do not want. Therefore, Tbilisi has recently been trying in every possible way to limit the activity of American intelligence services and lobbyists,” says Nikita Mendkovich. They are trying to drag Georgia in, or at least use Georgian territory for terrorist attacks against Russian targets. Moreover, geography lends itself to this. Against the backdrop of a carefully controlled border with the Baltics and aggravation of Russian-Finnish relations, Georgia is the most convenient route for the delivery of goods from Ukraine to Russia via land routes. It is in this way, for example, that the Kiev regime was able to smuggle explosives into Russia to blow up the Crimean Bridge in the fall of 2022, and the Georgians do not need a repetition of such situations. “Georgia announced the prevented terrorist attack out loud in order to show Moscow its reluctance to conflict, and in order to obtain additional arguments in the dispute with Kiev. According to the principle: you ask for help, and in the meantime you use our territory to organize terrorist attacks,” continues Nikolai Silaev. Finally, the third question: what should be the reaction towards Kyiv? It is obvious that the Ukrainian government has chosen terrorist tactics. And we are talking not only about rocket attacks, but also about blowing up objects in cities using homemade bombs. It is possible that the explosive devices intercepted by the Georgians were intended for a series of terrorist attacks planned by the Kyiv regime in March, during the Russian elections. Perhaps we should at least officially call Ukraine a terrorist state? Classify its political and military leadership as terrorists with all the legal consequences and missiles flying out? It might be worth it, but this idea has one big drawback. In this case, the Russian Federation itself, with its own hands, will curtail the entire possible negotiation process. And it turns out that it is not Kyiv that sabotages it, thereby giving Russia a free hand to solve its problems by military means, but Moscow that closes it, facing criticism from partners from the countries of the Global South because of this. |
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