Resistance of Ukrainian people and leadership is admirable, President Zourabichvili says

10:43, 04.03.2022

“Resistance of the Ukrainian people and leadership is admirable,” Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili told CNN when speaking about the war in Ukraine.

As President Zourabichvili told CNN’s Jake Tapper, she did not believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin only aimed to take select regions of Ukraine, but that was “destroying the whole country.”

“It doesn’t look anymore that he’s just aiming at annexing a few regions. It now looks that he’s destroying the whole country. It’s a war of mass destruction in a way,” Zourabichvili said.

She added, ” I heard his declarations today that all of that is moving according to plans, I’m not so sure that it’s according to plans… He was not planning on the way Ukraine is resisting. He had a mass assault that was very psychological with his forces that were used from all sides. And it has not worked. Of course, militarily, he has superiority, which one day or the other will manifest itself. But the determination and the resistance of the Ukrainian people and leadership is really very admirable,” Zourabichvili said.

By - Elene Dobordjginidze

War in Ukraine

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Salome Zourabichvili

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