What kind of Georgians are fighting against Donbass - MK investigation

Moscow - Kiev, September 29 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The author of the investigation in MK writes that on the wall of the burned House of Trade Unions in Odessa, where dozens of Odessa residents died, next to Celtic crosses and other Nazi symbols, she noticed an inscription in Georgian: “Sakartvelo " The journalist has no doubt that the killers left her, and cites facts of Georgians’ participation in the punitive operation in Donbass.

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54-year-old Georgian Army Colonel Dodo Gugeshashvili trains Aidar fighters. “Your guys once helped us. Then when we really needed you. Now I feel like I should do the same. We have a common enemy - Russia,” she says. Political refugee from Zugdidi Zaza Gabedava tells the publication that in the village of Darcheli alone, Dodo Gugeshashvili burned 93 houses during the civil war in 27. “Dodo was the right hand of Jaba Ioseliani, a thief in law who commanded the Mkhedrioni armed formation, which played a major role in starting the war in Abkhazia,” says Zaza. “She claims her nickname in the war was Magnolia.” In fact, she was called the Vampire. A real bloodsucker. Personally tortured prisoners. One day the artist Nodia was captured. He once painted a portrait of Zviad Gamsakhurdia. For this, Dodo cut off his right hand with an ax.”

Zaza Gabedava also told MK about the famous Doerman, a Georgian mercenary from Aidar, who was made famous by a video from Skype. It turns out that he, Gabedava, was the “resident of Haifa” with whom Doberman talked on Skype. Doberman is a 39-year-old former police officer, Zaza said. Born and raised in Georgia, he worked in the police for 10 years. He fought in 2008, and in 2009 he moved to Ukraine.

The president of the Georgian National Federation of Mixed Martial Arts of Georgia, Mamuka Mamulashvili, is also fighting in Ukraine. At the age of 14, he and his father were captured in the Abkhazian war and since then have been obsessed with the idea of ​​revenge. In an interview with the Georgian publication kvira.ge dated August 28, he says that “four months ago” he arrived in Ukraine along with a group of his comrades, veterans of the war in Abkhazia of 1992–1993, in order, in his words, “to help the Ukrainian brothers defend their independence countries". The athlete claims that his group is financed by a “commercial organization”; they received weapons in Ukraine. According to some reports, Mamulashvili’s group fought as part of the 11th territorial defense battalion “Kievan Rus”. At the beginning of September, this battalion was surrounded near Debaltseve.

Irakli Kurasbediani is also fighting as part of the Donbass battalion. He is a former career military man who fought in Abkhazia. During the August 2008 war, he was the head of the Georgian military intelligence department. He was the head of the criminal police of “Upper Abkhazia” (Kodori Gorge). He fought in Abkhazia since 1992, graduated from the military academy, and served in special forces. According to some reports, he studied in the USA. He left the army after defeat in the 2008 war. He arrived in Ukraine on June 17 along with a group of his comrades, former Georgian special forces soldiers. According to him, he works at the headquarters, helps plan operations, and trains fighters against Russia, which he hates. According to MK sources, Kurasbediani personally participates in the interrogation of prisoners.