The Georgian government has decided to support Ukraine amid frequent power outages caused by Russian strikes on energy infrastructure. This is reported by Echo of the Caucasus.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze signed an order to send a batch of generators to Ukraine. According to the document, the Energy Development Fund of Georgia will purchase various types of generators with a total cost of 1.5 million lari — more than 500 thousand US dollars.
Georgia occasionally provides humanitarian aid to Ukraine, but political relations between the countries remain virtually frozen. Tensions in bilateral relations arose after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when the ruling Georgian Dream party declared that it would not impose sanctions against Moscow.
Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, in particular in Kyiv, regularly lead to emergency power outages, especially in the winter, when the load on the energy system increases.
As a reminder, in January 2023, Georgia refused to provide military assistance to Ukraine and did not join international sanctions against Russia, explaining this by its own position on maintaining neutrality.
In particular, Tbilisi refused to transfer to Ukraine the Buk self-propelled anti-aircraft missile systems, which Kyiv provided to Georgia during the war with Russia in 2008. The Georgian Ministry of Defense stated that these systems were not free aid, but were purchased under a contract.
