For a Georgian warrior, every battle is Didgori and he enters every battle, as in Didgori, the heroes of Shindisi showed this 17 years ago - at the same time, it shows us that not every battle has patriotic commanders like David the Builder, - the Chairman of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, told journalists at the Shindisi Heroes Memorial in Shindisi.

According to him, “if it weren’t for Saakashvili’s puppet regime, there would not have been war.”

According to Papuashvili, in 2008, “Saakashvili’s puppet regime used Georgia as a pawn on the great geopolitical chessboard.”

“For a Georgian soldier, for a Georgian warrior, every battle is Didgori. It doesn’t matter what happens around it. A Georgian fighter enters every battle, just like Didgori. This was shown to us 17 years ago by the heroes of Shindisi. At the same time, this shows us that not every battle has patriotic commanders like David the Builder. This also reminds us that if it weren’t for the puppet regime that existed 17 years ago, this war wouldn’t have happened. They might not have been heroes, but they would have been with their families, their children, their wives. This is the lesson that our society has learned. When you have a puppet regime that is at the head of a country, of course, such regimes act not in the interests of their own country, but in the interests of other countries and other groups. This is what happened 17 years ago. Saakashvili’s puppet regime has placed Georgia on the geopolitical chessboard to use it as a pawn.

Hopefully, the war in Ukraine is coming to an end, although there are still many issues to be resolved as we see. However, there is political will, including from the US and Russia, and it seems that Ukraine is also expressing its readiness. Hopefully, the war will end soon. However, this is also a lesson, and our own lesson teaches us this. We have been saying this from the very beginning, we Georgians know very well how such wars begin and how they end.

Even today, we hear loud talk that Ukraine is the front line of Europe. How many European and EU soldiers have you seen on this front line, if this is the front line of the EU's fight to defend itself from Russia? Why don't we see Lithuanian, Estonian soldiers? French or German soldiers? Mikheil Saakashvili was the head of a puppet regime that used Georgia as a pawn in major geopolitical conflicts, where many different parties have interests.

The question is the following - why did the war start? They are avoiding this and that is why they are actually shifting the questions, focusing on dates, minutes and seconds. The question is simple - why did the war start?” Papuashvili said.”