Five servicemen of the 57th brigade, volunteers from Georgia, were killed, and their commander was captured after a group of Ukrainian servicemen was surrounded by Russian occupiers near the town of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak has said.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Monday sent his condolences over the recent death of six Georgian volunteers in Ukraine, with five of them killed near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Saturday amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, calling it a “great loss for our country”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday accused the “radical” wing of the domestic opposition of “immoral populism and hypocrisy” over the topic of the deaths of Georgian volunteers in the war in Ukraine.