Tengiz Kitovani: "they [Russians] officially gave us the 108 tanks of the Akhaltsikhe Division"
Tengiz Kitovani with Georgian soldiers in Abkhazia (1992).
from the interview with Tengiz Kitovani - Tbilisi ['Sakartvelos Respublika' in Georgian] 29 March 1994 pp. 3-4.
FBIS Report Central Eurasia (FBIS-USR-94-058) 06-1994.
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Abkhazian war-time cartoon depicting Boris Yeltsin as a matron handling child Shevardnadze’s toy tanks and urging him not to cry as he now had a division based in Akhaltsikhe (southwest Georgia). This cartoon reflects Abkhazians’ suspicions of Russia’s links with Georgia in those years. Yeltsin dressed up as a Russian granny trying to comfort baby Shevardnadze, upset that his toy tanks are broken, by telling him: ‘Don’t cry! The regiment in Akhaltshikhe is now with you.’
