Russia to build naval base in Georgia's breakaway Ochamchire region
Russia is planning to build a permanent naval base on the Black Sea coast in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia's Ochamchira district, the region’s leader said. While Russia's step dropped like a bomb on the agenda today, it was claimed in the Western media that the military base to be established in Ochamchire was considered an alternative to Sevastopol.
Russia is planning to build a permanent naval base on the Black Sea coast in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia's Ochamchira district, the region’s leader said.
Abkhazia and Russia have already signed an agreement and the new base will be in the Ochamchira district “in the near future,” Aslan Bzhania, the leader of the occupied Moscow-backed region, told the Izvestiya newspaper in an interview published Thursday, October 5, 2023.
“All this is aimed at increasing the level of defense capability of both Russia and Abkhazia, and this kind of cooperation will continue, because it ensures the fundamental interests of both Abkhazia and Russia, and security is above all. There are also things I can’t talk about,” Bzhania noted.
While Russia's step dropped like a bomb on the agenda today, it was claimed in the Western media that the military base to be established in Ochamchire was considered an alternative toSevastopol. Russia has permanent military bases in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, another Moscow-backed separatist region. Russia recognized these two regions as independent states after the 2008 war with Georgia.
Source: Newsroom
