For fighting against Russia in Ukraine, Russia sentenced me to 6 years and 6 months. I do not rule out that the Russian regime of these traitors will take me and hand me over directly to Russia. I do not rule out either arrest, bullet, or physical retaliation. We see the scale of this flood of slander, - one of the leaders of the National Movement Giorgi Baramidze states.

According to him, they need all this to discredit and blacken him.

"Everyone knows my biography, where I was, where I fought, how many prisoners I freed, whether I did it at all or not. The language of these scoundrels has no bones and the scum of these scoundrels has no bottom. I said exactly that the war was not between Abkhazians and Georgians, but that Russia was the occupier and that Russia initiated and waged this war. Russia is our enemy. It is not as they say, with messages from their masters, the Kremlin, as if it was an ethnic conflict. Now they are treacherously emphasizing this. These are the people who accuse Georgia of starting the war.

Russia punished me with 6 years and 6 months for fighting against Russia in Ukraine. I do not exclude that the Russian regime of these traitors will take me and hand me over directly to Russia. I do not exclude arrest, I do not exclude a bullet, nor physical retribution. We see the extent of this flood of slander.

From a purely legal perspective, they themselves know very well that this is absurd. They need all this again and again to discredit and blacken me.

People who are representatives of this regime, of course, are carrying out the tasks given to them from above. They are tasked with attacking Baramidze and saying as many nasty things as possible. Another word could have been used, but I said the main thing there - we, embittered people, did not take prisoners when our mother was killed, our father was killed, our brother was killed, our family was torn apart. What is incomprehensible in this? Accordingly, if you do not take prisoners, you shoot and burn the enemy. Maybe I should have used a different word, but the content is clear, right? - We did not take prisoners, and if we did not take prisoners, how would we shoot them?” - Baramidze told TV Pirveli.

As a reminder, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia has launched an investigation into the fact of treason and sabotage. In particular, the case concerns an interview given to Iago Khvichia by one of the leaders of the “National Movement”, Giorgi Baramidze, in which he notes that during the war in Abkhazia “we had no prisoners, Georgians did not held captives, they were shooting them”. After that, Giorgi Baramidze made an explanation regarding the above, noting that “the situation he is talking about changed later, namely after his arrival, and “if it had not changed, they would not have been able to exchange 200 Georgians with the separatist side”. Later, Giorgi Baramidze stated that "in the first days of the war, when exchanging prisoners or other difficult processes, it would have been better to use a different word." "I never said that our people were shooting those who were captured, I never saw that and I don't know any facts about it," Baramidze stated.