Ukrainian citizens end hunger strike at Georgian checkpoint

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After meeting with the Ukrainian consul, Ukrainian citizens who are at the Georgian border checkpoint "Dariali" stopped their hunger strike.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, five Ukrainian citizens went on a hunger strike at the Georgian checkpoint "Dariali", they complained that they were not allowed into the country. The hunger strikers demanded that the Ukrainian consul be allowed to see them, that they be given the opportunity to leave Georgia, or that they apply for international protection.

The Ukrainian citizens who went on a hunger strike in the basement of the Dariali checkpoint have announced that they are ending it, the Tbilisi life Telegram channel wrote on August 8.

According to them, the decision was made after they met with the Ukrainian consul, who provided them with "a mechanism for further action and promised to present a specific work plan for leaving on Monday." At the same time, the Ukrainians said that if specific steps are not taken, they will resume the hunger strike in two weeks.

In December 2023, a group of Ukrainian citizens, mostly former prisoners, waited for a long time for permission to enter Georgia from Russia. Some of them spent about a month at the checkpoint. According to them, only volunteers provided them with assistance.

In October 2023, seven Ukrainian citizens were forced to spend more than two weeks in the buffer zone on the Russian-Georgian border. Previously, they had served their sentences in the colonies of Kherson; after their release, they were brought to the deportation center in Volgograd and issued orders banning entry into Russia. While the Georgian authorities refused to let them into the country, volunteers supplied the Ukrainians with food and essential items.

At the end of November of the same year, it became known that the Georgian authorities again refused to let former Ukrainian prisoners into the country. Volunteers managed to get eight Ukrainians through, but another eight people, who had spent more than two weeks at the checkpoint by that time, were left waiting at the border.