Georgia lashes out at Zelenskyy over 'ingratitude': Ukraine's parliament speaker responds firmly
Photo: Shalva Papuashvili (facebook.com/shpapuashvili)
Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili accused Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy of ingratitude amid Georgia’s support for the UN resolution on Ukraine’s territorial integrity, according to InterPressNews and a statement from Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk.
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The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament stated that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is an "ungrateful person" who "shows no gratitude to either the US or Georgia."
"We support the Ukrainian people. Neither Zelenskyy, nor his deputies, nor Brussels deserve our support. They are ungrateful people. Where was the United Kingdom when Zelenskyy imposed sanctions on members of the Georgian government?" he said.
'Minimal level of decency'
In his post, Stefanchuk quoted a Georgian proverb, "A spoken word is not a dagger: you cannot put it back." He also noted that Ukraine "is grateful to the Georgian people, who truly understand what dignity is.
The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) speaker emphasized that supporting the UN resolution is not charity or heroism, but "the minimal level of decency" in 2026.
He added that anyone who constantly reproaches Ukraine for "ingratitude," while the country bleeds in the fight for its right to live, is actually "covering up their own loss of dignity and instead demonstrating base subservience."
"I want to recall the words of the great Georgian philosopher Merab Mamardashvili, 'There is no formula for human freedom, nor a cure for human idiocy. Political efficiency is not the main thing. Freedom is the main thing,'" Stefanchuk wrote.
The speaker also stressed that Ukraine "does not need lectures from moralizers who act as transmitters of the 'Russian world' narratives."
The European Union recently proposed, for the first time, including ports in third countries — Georgia and Indonesia — that handle Russian oil on its sanctions list. This refers to the ports of Kulevi (Georgia) and Karimun (Indonesia).
