A group of volunteer military personnel from Georgia has been surrounded near the town of Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast in recent days; As a result, a Georgian commander was wounded and five soldiers were killed.
Source: Military volunteer Romeo Parulava on Georgia’s opposition TV channel Mtavari, reports European Pravda.
Details: According to him, these killed soldiers have served in the 57th Brigade since March 2022, when they came to Ukraine from Georgia.
Quote: “The commander is wounded. The rest of the guys along with our Ukrainian brothers are surrounded. The fight to bring out the survivors and the bodies of our dead continues,” Parulava said.
Details: The deaths of five Georgians near Bakhmut became known recently. They are Auto Rurua, Romeo Pichkhaya, Romeo Kvaratskhelia, Badri Markelia and Meraba Aladashvili. The death of Jaba Hoperia, another military volunteer, was previously reported.
PHOTO: Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia
On December 3, President of Georgia Salome Zurabichvili expressed her condolences on the death of the volunteers.
Quote: “In these dark moments, I offer my condolences to the families, friends and relatives of all Georgian soldiers who lost their lives in Ukraine,” Zurabishvili wrote on Facebook.
Details: According to the Georgian news agency Novosti-Georgia, up to 1,500 Georgian soldiers are now fighting on the side of Ukraine. Some of them lived in Ukraine before the invasion, others came there as volunteers after the war started.
On March 18, the first Georgian volunteer was killed in Ukraine. As of December 4, 33 Georgians were killed in action on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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