The head of the Georgian government, Irakli Garibashvili, who previously criticized Vladimir Zelensky for supporting large-scale protests in Tbilisi, said that Russia invaded Ukraine because our state wanted to become a NATO member. Echo of the Caucasus reports.

Garibashvili noted that one of the main reasons for Russian aggression was "

" One of the main reasons was NATO, NATO expansion. And many other reasons... I don't want to speculate, I don't want to quote statements from the Russian government. But one of the reasons was Ukraine's desire to become a NATO member.. So we are seeing the consequences,"

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Earlier, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili criticized the possibility of imposing sanctions against countries that still continue to do business with the Russian Federation..