According to Civil Movement leader Aleko Elisashvili, Georgia should send humanitarian aid to the Tskhinvali region. Elisashvili held a briefing about the humanitarian and food crisis in the Tskhinvali region today.

"Situation is very difficult in the Tskhinvali region. After the New Year, the only road and communication channel of the Tskhinvali region is the Roki tunnel and the trans-Caucasian highway that is closed due to heavy snow. Because of this, traffic, communication and import of products to the Tskhinvali region, including in Akhalgori, Java, are halted.

There is a food and humanitarian crisis in Tskhinvali. Catastrophe may erupt any day now. There are no medicines or food for children. Some may think that the people who burned down and robbed Georgian villages, who killed Archil Tatunashvili and covered up the murderers, deserve even worse, but we are human in the first place. Many of our fellow citizens, including children and patients, are in a very hard situation there," Aleko Elisashvili said in his address to Mamuka Bakhtadze and Davit Sergeenko.

"I want to address the Prime Minister of Georgia and the Minister of Health to show humanity and immediately launch communication with representatives of Tskhinvali without any pre-conditions and find a resource for humanitarian aid. I am sure that this step will be met with great enthusiasm by our foreign partners," Elisashvili said.