A breakaway Georgian province, has declared its intention to join Russia in the war against Ukraine

South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian province, has declared its intention to join Russia.
According to the president of the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia, the area will take steps in the near future to become a part of the Russian Federation.
Breakaway South Ossetia, a Georgian territory, has stated that it intends to join Russia.
According to the president of the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia, the area will take steps in the near future to become a part of the Russian Federation. The area of Abkhazia and its coastal region were recognized as independent by Moscow in 2008, following a war with the neighboring Georgia. In addition to providing countries with substantial financial assistance, Russia has also granted Russian citizenship to their inhabitants and stationed thousands of troops in their territories.
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“I feel that unification with Russia is our strategic aim, our route, and the ambition of the people,” Anatoly Bibilov, a member of the United Russia political party, was reported as saying by the party’s press office. “We intend to take the necessary legal action as soon as possible in the future. The Republic of South Ossetia will become a part of Russia, which is its ancient motherland.”
Russian-speaking separatists have been granted citizenship in eastern Ukraine’s Russian-speaking Donbas region, allowing Moscow to maintain an armed presence in a territory of the former Soviet Union that it considers to be within its natural sphere of influence, as it has done in the Donbas region. As part of its long-standing support for armed separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk, Russia used a military incursion in Ukraine on February 24 to “liberate” the entire, wider Donbas region from Ukrainian control, one of its stated aims being to “liberate” the entire, wider Donbas region from Ukrainian control.