The News in Brief

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Russian Airline Red Wings to Launch Flights in Georgia

The Russian airline Red Wings, which is to fulfill flights to and from Georgia, has added occupied Abkhazia to the list of countries. Georgia has not yet been added to the website. Red Wings will start flights from June 2, in the direction of Sochi-Tbilisi and Moscow-Kutaisi. Red Wings is the second Russian airline after 'Azimut' that will start flights to Georgia. It is a subsidiary of the Russian state corporation 'Ros Tech', which is sanctioned by the United States of America. The company Azimut also indicated the occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions as independent states in the countries column of the registration graph. Later, the self-proclaimed republics were removed from the list of countries.



Zygimantas Pavilionis: Correction - NATO's Non-Expansion Provoked the War

Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Lithuanian Parliament, Zygimantas Pavilionis, reacts to the speech of Irakli Gharibashvili in Bratislava, where Gharibashvili said that "one of the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the expansion of NATO."

"Correction - NATO's non-expansion provoked the war," Pavilionis wrote.

'NATO expansion' is cited as a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine in Russia as well. Before the start of the war, President Vladimir Putin and other government officials repeatedly reiterated that Kyiv's desire to become a member of NATO was a concern, however, before the start of the war, this issue was not on the agenda.

After the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv applied for NATO membership.