Georgian ruling party head waiting for “judgement” to call Russian actions in Ukraine a genocide

Head of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party Irakli Kobakhidze says that “legal assessments,”- a court judgment, is needed for him to call Russian actions in Ukraine a genocide, unlike US President Joe Biden who used the term earlier this week to describe the Russian aggression.

Kobakhidze told journalists earlier today that Biden’s move was not sufficient “neither for me, nor for Macron (French President Emmanuel Macron who has refrained from using the term),” to describe the aggression as a genocide.

Kobakhidze said that the international community still does not have an unanimous position whether or not to call the Russian aggression against Ukraine a genocide.

“We were the co-author of the complaint in The Hague court and will wait, of course, for a proper legal assessment. When there are legal assessments, then a political statement can be made on our part,” Kobakhidze said.

Kyiv says that Russians have killed thousands of civilians in Bucha and Mariupol alone since the beginning of invasion on February 24.