The Georgian government does not plan to change its policy in light of Kyiv's appointment of a new ambassador to Tbilisi, and will not impose sanctions against Russia over the war against Ukraine.
This was stated to journalists by the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, News Georgia reports.
Commenting on the appointment of Mykhailo Brodovych as head of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Papushvili welcomed the decision, but said that “nothing has changed.”
“Georgia has not changed its policy. We said four years ago that we would not impose bilateral sanctions (against the Russian Federation, — ed.), and we still say that now. Just as we said that we would not send soldiers there to fight, so now the state is not going to send soldiers to Ukraine,” said the speaker of the Georgian parliament.
At the same time, he expressed hope that Kyiv's appointment of an ambassador “will mark a rethinking of the hostile rhetoric towards Georgians by the Ukrainian authorities.”
In March 2022, Zelensky recalled Ambassador Igor Dolgov from Georgia. On June 24 of the same year, the president dismissed a number of Ukrainian diplomatic representatives in various countries, including Dolgov.
On January 26, 2026, the head of state appointed diplomat Mykhailo Brodovych, who, in particular, headed the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Slovenia in 2015-2022, as the Ambassador of Ukraine to Georgia.