Nika Melia, chairman of the United National Movement, says that Tbilisi City Hall has a contract with a Russian company, Metrowagonmash, which manufactures military equipment.

Nika Melia calls on Kakha Kaladze to immediately unilaterally terminate his contract with the Russian company.

"I was not going to hold a briefing, if not another unbelievable, to put it mildly, treacherous fact: it turned out that while the Putin regime is committing genocide and blockading hundreds of thousands of civilians in Ukraine, the mayor of Tbilisi, Mr. Kaladze has a contract with the Russian company Metrowagonmash on behalf of the Tbilisi City Hall.

This is the company that was supposed to supply 44 wagons to the Tbilisi Metro under the contract, but this company produces Russian military equipment and is the flagship of the Russian military industry in terms of caterpillar armored vehicles. This is no ordinary company. Mr. Kaladze, you should have been the first person who, due to many understandable reasons, should have advocated for Ukraine and the Ukrainians. Now, when the whole West is trying to stop the financial flows to the Putin regime so that it can not finance the military industry, you have a contract worth 170 million GEL with the military industry on behalf of Tbilisians and you do not terminate the contract unilaterally, you do not say anything, you are on mute. It is clear that you do not join the world in imposing sanctions on Russia, it is clear that you do not block the Russians, it is clear that you do not stop making statements against the Ukrainian government, but at least manage to achieve that millions of GEL from the Georgian state budget are not directed in Moscow's military industry.

I hope Mr. Kaladze will come out tomorrow morning and give a concrete answer to the Georgian society and say the only thing - that he will unilaterally cancel the contract with this military company. With the military company of a country that has become terrorist which kills and slaughters children in Ukraine. This is not an ambush position, I am just ashamed as a citizen of this country, ashamed as most of those who are now aware of the statement I have made. Isn't it a shame when our money, 170 million GEL, goes to a company that produces armored vehicles in Moscow? So that they can use this money to bomb the Ukrainians," Nika Melia said at a party briefing.