In July 2014, when the war in eastern Ukraine was becoming increasingly intense and bitter, former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili accused the new Georgian authorities of persecuting "the officers of the armed forces that came to Ukraine to consult the Ukrainians during the fighting." Saakashvili expressed his indignation about the fact that these Georgian officers "were questioned by the counter-intelligence department of the Ministry of Interior after they returned home and where [Georgia’s] officials hinted at the undesirability of their stay in Ukraine" (Kommersant, July 23).
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A Ukrainian serviceman bents down as he hears nearby shooting in small eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, Donetsk region on September 9, 2014.
