President of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania. File photoSUKHUM, Aug 14Abkhazia will always be grateful to the volunteers who stood up for its defense in the war with Georgia 30 years ago, President of the Republic Aslan Bzhaniya said on Sunday. On August 14, 1992, the troops of the State Council of Georgia invaded the territory of Abkhazia. anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. It has been 30 years since the Georgian authorities started a war against our country. But we did not flinch. Strong and brave people stood up in unison to defend their homeland. We will always be grateful to every volunteer who came at the call of the heart help us. The enemy could not break the strength of the spirit of the people, the soldiers, our unity and the will to win,» Bzhaniya said.Bzhaniya supported Gagloev on the anniversary of Georgia's attack on South OssetiaThe President stressed that the memory of those terrible days of the war would be passed on from generation to generation. «Parents, brothers and sisters, innocently killed children will always live in our hearts. Eternal memory to them! Eternal memory to the glorious defenders of the Fatherland,» the message says. flowers to the Memorial of Glory in Sukhum and to the Memorial of the first President Vladislav Ardzinba in the village of Nizhnyaya Eshera in memory of those killed in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992-1993. In the Ochamchira and Gulrypsh regions of Abkhazia, they were fired upon by local militias. The war ended on September 30, 1993, with the expulsion of the troops of the State Council of Georgia from the territory of Abkhazia. According to the Abkhaz Ministry of Defense, more than two thousand people from the Abkhaz side died in the war. About two hundred were missing. Attempts at a political settlement of the conflict did not bring results. Georgia still does not recognize Abkhazia as an independent state and considers it its own region. On August 26, 2008, after Georgia's armed aggression against Tskhinval, Moscow recognized the sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The leaders of Russia have repeatedly stated that the recognition of the independence of the two former Georgian autonomies reflects the existing realities and is not subject to revision. However, Tbilisi refuses to recognize the independence of the republics.
