In her opinion, Russia will lose the war in Ukraine, and after its end, it will have to leave not only the occupied Ukrainian territories, but also the Georgian ones.

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quoted by the Bloomberg agency: "Russia has practically lost all battles, if not the entire war."

Georgian issues should also be on the negotiation table.

Russia must learn where its borders are."

The President of Georgia called on the Western community to demand from the President of Russia

the withdrawal of troops from the internationally recognized territory of the country as one of the conditions of the peace agreement with Ukraine.

Otherwise, she believes, the West "will make a big mistake, like in 2008 and 2014."

• South Ossetia and Abkhazia were part of the Georgian SSR.

  In the 1990s, both territories declared independence, which Georgia did not recognize.

  In 2008, after the "five-day war" with Georgia, Russia deployed its troops on the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics.

• Apart from Russia, only four UN member states - Venezuela, Nauru, Nicaragua and Syria - recognized the independence of these self-proclaimed republics.

  Georgia considers these territories occupied by Russia.

• There are no diplomatic relations between Georgia and Russia.

  At the same time, the Georgian authorities refused to join the sanctions imposed by Western countries against the Russian Federation after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and although they officially support Ukraine, they are very restrained in their rhetoric and actions.

  The Georgian opposition accuses the country's authorities of being pro-Russian.