On March 12, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian politicians who supported the recent protests in Tbilisi are interested in destabilizing the situation in Georgia as well.

"When a person in a state of war finds time and responds to the destructive action carried out here, carried out by several thousand people, this is direct evidence that he is turned on, that he is motivated for something to happen here, for something to change," Garibashvili said. Garibashvili advised the Ukrainian authorities to first care for themselves and their country.

The Prime Minister of Georgia also said that the party of the imprisoned ex-president of the country, Mikheil Saakashvili, "United National Movement," is moving towards its goal—to overthrow the Government and start a war.

According to Garibashvili, Saakashvili's mother founded a club where young people are brainwashed.

Moreover, Irakli Garibashvili said that as long as the Georgian Dream is in power, it will not allow the opening of a second front. This is how he commented on the promise of ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili, an associate of imprisoned ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, that the new leadership of Georgia would fight against Russia.

"Merabishvili admitted that their goal is to wage war against Russia, that is, to open a second front, which we have been talking about in our society all this year... Let's imagine that today there is a war in Georgia. Everyone understands that our beautiful country will turn into a testing ground," he said.

According to Garibashvili, if Saakashvili were in power now, Georgia would cease to exist as a sovereign state. The Prime Minister also said that during the riots in Tbilisi on March 7 and 8, the youth wing of Saakashvili's United National Movement party, at the base of which Merabishvili also stood, began to attack the police. "The collective National Movement is no longer a radical organization but an extremist one. It is not long before it becomes a terrorist organization," the Prime Minister of Georgia warned.

Merabishvili previously stated that the true purpose of the unrest in Georgia was to carry out a coup d'état and bring a pro-Ukrainian party to power in Tbilisi. "We ourselves are going to start mass actions in order to achieve a change of Government and the coming to power in Georgia of a pro-Western, pro-Ukrainian government. In order for Ukraine not to be alone. We are practically allies, so we must be together and celebrate not only the victory over Russia but also accession to the EU and NATO. I am sure that this spring and summer will be very interesting in terms of solving problems in Georgia," the opposition leader said.

Also, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili called former President Mikheil Saakashvili an agent of external influence. In particular, according to Garibashvili, the resolution of the European Parliament adopted in February, which called for the release of Saakashvili from prison, is an explicit recognition that he is their agent.

"I made a statement a few days ago and said that the European Parliament gave us direct recognition with its shameful resolution and told us that Saakashvili, to put it very simply, is their agent. They are doing everything to save their agent and get him out of prison," Garibashvili said.

According to him, this [the release of Saakashvili] will not happen, and the Georgian authorities will not violate the law and the Constitution of the country. Garibashvili stressed that Saakashvili committed many grave crimes.