“In the hungry that became known on Wednesday, according to the latest data, 15 people are involved”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the latest data, 15 people are involved in the starvation, which was known on Wednesday.
According to the new newspaper Europe on Thursday, the first secretary of the Consulate of Ukraine in Georgia arrived at them in the evening of the previous day. He managed to take about eight people, after which he went, saying that he intended to come.
The Ukrainians who visited the reception said that the diplomat answered them “according to the template” and “said nothing expressive.” As a result of the starvation, they decided not to stop. The participants of the hunger strike explained that they would continue to give up food until the question of their stay at the border.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has stated today that Russia is sending more deported ones, which “can testify to the purposeful Russian operation.” According to the Ministry, 96 citizens of Ukraine are currently in the buffer zone of the Dariya checkpoint.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that after receiving a notification of an indefinite starvation of the Consul of Ukraine in Georgia, they immediately went to the border for a meeting with citizens of Ukraine at the Dariala’s checkpoint and appealed to the Georgian side demanding urgent and unobstructed access. The consuls are permanent connection with the citizens of Ukraine who are at the Darialai checkpoint.
Diplomats noted that the Ukrainian side is “actively working” to find as soon as possible for transit of Ukrainian citizens and return the next groups of people in the near future from Dariala checking.
Russia sends prisoners to the Russian-Georgian border, who were originally convicted in the territories of Ukraine, which were subsequently occupied by the Russian Federation. In most cases, they served their sentences in Russian colonies, where they were forcibly exported.
Georgia’s authorities state that most of these citizens have been convicted of particularly serious crimes, do not have the necessary documents for the crossing of the border, and their admission to the territory of the country is “threatened”.
Georgia is currently the only route through which Ukrainian expired people can return home from the occupied territories or after deportation to Russia. At the same time, without any documents, Ukrainian experts for weeks or months are stuck at the Russian-Georgian border until they receive confirmation from the Embassy of Ukraine that they are its citizens. After that, they can get a white passport in a diploma in the capital of Georgia and return home.
For the first time, the journalists of the Radio Liberty project spoke about this problem. In the documentary “Back me home”, they showed how Ukrainian deported by the invaders overcome the way home. And in July last year, during the presentation of the tape in Kiev, this issue was discussed with human rights activists, representatives of the prosecutor’s office and the then Minister of Justice Denis Martuska.