Kabardino-Balkarian regional public organization "Veterans of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia 1992-1993" and the Union of Abkhazian Volunteers of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania issued statements about the inadmissibility of the resumption of hostilities against [separatist] Abkhazia and South Ossetia/Tskhinvali Region.

Veteran volunteers warned Georgia's leaders that war is, first of all, innocent bloodshed and only then a means of solving political problems. They reminded those who call for the war of recent history and its consequences. "The unleashing of war is contrary not only to the national interests of Abkhazia and South Ossetia but also to Georgia itself, the volunteers emphasize," the statement added.

"We, veterans-volunteers of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia, want to warn the hotheads who recently called and incited the Georgian authorities to unleash a war outside of Georgia. War is, first of all, innocently shed blood and only then a means of solving political problems!" it added.

"For those who call for war, we will give a little history lesson. In 1992, the Shevardnadze junta, having drowned Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi in blood, expelled the legally elected first president of Georgia, then shed a sea of the innocent blood of its Mingrelian people, and only after that began bloody actions in South Ossetia, in Abkhazia. The result of all this was obvious. Moreover, in 1992, Abkhazia did not even raise the issue of secession from Georgia - then the Abkhaz offered to sign an agreement that regulated a joint future life," it said.

"By the way, in 1993, as part of the Abkhaz army, we went to Tbilisi, then Vladislav Ardzinba turned us back, and only thanks to his authority did we not go forward. We never fought with the Georgian people, we fought with the Georgian fascists," they added. "We are winners, we are against war because we know how and can fight, but we do not want to shed the blood of even enemies. We hope for prudence and that a little digression into history will help prevent the beginning of the end of Georgia as a separate state," it said.

Timur Shordanov, Chairman of the board of the Kabardino-Balkarian regional public organization "Veterans of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia 1992-1993, said: "On the streets and squares of Tbilisi, calls began again to organize new military campaigns against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. We, veterans-volunteers of the Patriotic War of the people of Abkhazia, appeal to the peace-loving Georgian people: in 1992 and 1993, we fought not with the Georgian people but with gangs of marauders and murderers who had drowned Georgia itself in blood."

"We remind those who have a short memory that if in the nineties of the last century, Abkhazia was able to repel the troops of the State Council of Georgia without support, then at the beginning of the 21st century, with the full support of the Russian Federation, the people of Abkhazia will solve any military problem," he added.