According to EU Observer, former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili appears to be weighing in on the kerfuffle surrounding former Polish Foreign MInister Radoslaw Sikorski's reported claim that in 2008 Russian President Vladimir offered to carve up Ukraine with then Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
[Saakashvili] told Poland’s TVN24 broadcaster on Tuesday that Putin really did make the offer to Tusk and that he made similar comments to Hungarian and Romanian leaders.
“Tusk repeated it to me. He thought Putin was joking. But he [Putin] said the same thing to Hungary and to Romania”, Saakashvili noted.
“He [Putin] also told me that something has to be done about Moldova … and that Nato cannot defend the Baltic states".
Read the entire report here
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