Georgian Legion in Ukrainian war

Georgian volunteers in Ukraine war quit military unit after ‘provocations’

By | January 10th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: , |

The Georgian Legion. (Facebook.) Georgian Legion’s commander Mamuka Mamulashvili. (Facebook.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian volunteers who have been fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine since 2014 accuse their commander of betrayal and have abandoned the brigade they belonged to in the Ukrainian military. All but three of the around 40 Georgian volunteers […]

Georgian volunteer soldier’s arrest in Kiev stirs controversy in Georgia

By | January 26th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

(Protest at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tbilisi, Jan. 23. On.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The top prosecutor in Ukraine is calling off a criminal case against a Georgian man who volunteered to fight in the war in Donbass. The man is accused of a murder in Sochi in 2003 and risks extradition to Russia. His defense lawyer at the trial […]