Saakashvili told how Tymoshenko giggled with Putin and spoiled Russia
Mikheil Saakashvili refused to support the reproaches of Viktor Yushchenko and Petro Poroshenko against Yulia Tymoshenko over the fact that during her prime ministership she giggled at a meeting with Vladimir Putin and refused to openly side with Georgia during the war in August 2008.
In fact, the Tymoshenko government provided assistance to Tbilisi, Saakashvili said in an interview with the former editor of Forbes-Ukraine, journalist Vladimir Fedorin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s a little manipulated. Firstly, Putin presented it this way. Yes, at that moment she, perhaps, purely from a dramatic point of view, made a mistake. But, on the other hand, they actually gave us humanitarian aid back then.
There was such a situation - they had a mortal battle with Yushchenko. Yushchenko did a great job, he came to Georgia, he supported us, I am immensely grateful to him. But there was such a clash already inside... But in our case, even her government immediately gave us humanitarian aid, they thought that they could do what Yushchenko did not do.
And Putin took advantage of this. That's it - divide and conquer. And, unfortunately, this image remained. But I didn’t feel that she was against Georgia. On the contrary, I say again, I remember what happened,” Saakashvili said.
As PolitNavigator reported, recently Saakashvili was caught in political prostitution, making a video message in support of Yulia Tymoshenko at the congress, where she was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. Just a few weeks before Saakashvili called Tymoshenko “the Kremlin cuckoo” on air on Zik TV channel,
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