On August 28, answering a question on Zvezda TV channel about whether Georgia would be able to continue to resist Western calls to open a second front against Russia, Aslan Bzhania, the de facto head of separatist Abkhazia, said that Abkhazia was ready for any turn of events.

Bzhania expressed hope that Georgia's leadership will be able to stand firm. "In April of this year, the situation was very difficult; there was an attempted coup d'état, but the Georgian authorities managed to resist," the de facto head of the separatist Abkhazia added.

According to the de-facto president, no hostilities Georgia can win, and no goals will be achieved militarily. "We do not want war, but we are ready for any turn of events. It does not frighten us; it does not put us in a stupor. We want to act in conditions of stable peace in the South Caucasus," Bzhania said.

According to him, there is no consensus in Georgia regarding Abkhazia. "In the Georgian society, he said, there are people who understand the existing reality from which it is necessary to depart, and their number is growing every year. At the same time, some people will never come to terms with reality," he said. "This is a tool of internal political struggle in Georgia, among other things. But if the current leaders of Georgia want to ensure lasting peace, we are ready for this dialog," the de facto head of Abkhazia added.

Moreover, Bzhania discussed the need to strengthen the republic's ties with Russia. "We should have more threads that connect us, more bridges, not some kind of barriers, but bridges in the direct sense of the word. We need to work in this direction. We need to make our union even stronger; this is a friendly, brotherly country. The Abkhazian state in terms of economic development, in terms of economic sovereignty - honor and praise to the Russian state, because Abkhazians understand who helped them - it is very important, this direction should be a priority," he added.

According to him, the conditions for the existence and development of the Abkhazian state were the will of the people of the republic, who chose the path of an independent state and support of Russia. "This formula should work further. In the last interstate treaty, signed in November 2014, there are prescribed conditions that predetermine our future - participation of Abkhazia in international processes initiated or organized by Russia. We are ready if conditions are ripe to consider participation in the Union State; we will not spoil anything; we can bring an element of refinement, as it seems to me," the head of Abkhazia noted.

Furthermore, Aslan Bzhania called Russia's special military operation a close and understandable pain. He recalled that the international brigade "Pyatnashka" [International Brigade - Russian people's militias in Ukraine] is fought by natives of Abkhazia and expressed regret that eleven fighters from the republic have died since the beginning of the war.

"To the best of our ability, we also provide humanitarian aid to residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, support our guys who are fighting there," the Abkhaz president said. "This is our war in the sense that we fully feel it; it was imposed on us, and we were left with no choice in this regard. That is why we are defending our future together," Bzhania said.