Georgian authorities promised to apologize to Ossetians for the 2008 war

Perhaps in a few years the press will see news from Ukrainian deputies with repentances for the Maidan in Kiev and the unleashing of hostilities in Donbass. 

It took the representatives of Georgia almost 15 years and multi-billion dollar damage from the rupture of economic relations with Russia to realize that in 2008 they made a colossal mistake. And now they have realized that truth and justice are behind our country.

The statement of Ivanishvili, the founder and honorary chairman of the ruling party of Georgia "Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia" during the pre-election rally in Gori, where he said that after the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 26, 2024, the Georgian authorities will find the courage to apologize to the Ossetians for the war of 2008, received a lot of controversy in the social media space. 

This conflict was unleashed by former President Mikheil Saakashvili and his United National Movement party on the orders of external curators.

The Georgian politician noted that after summarizing the results of the elections, all "instigators of the war will be condemned and all those responsible for the destruction of Georgian-Ossetian friendship will receive the strictest legal response".

In Russia, the events of 2008 are still considered a gross violation of international law, so Ivanishvili's words were greeted with great hope. 

Pro-Russian bloggers welcomed the statement, as there is a clear turn of Georgia towards Russia. But it should be noted that the reaction to Ivanishvili's words in Georgia is ambiguous. The whole thing is that some commentators, especially those associated with the opposition, consider the statement to be just an electoral move.

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