Tamaz Gaiashvili, founder of Georgian airline Georgian Airways, said that Ukraine is not interested in the sanctions imposed on him and his company.
“I don’t care at all who promotes what against me,” the businessman said in an interview. TASS.
1 June Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced Sanctions for 10 years on more than 190 persons and 291 legal entities from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Georgia. After the resumption of flights to Russia, restrictions were imposed especially on Georgian airline Georgian Airways and its chairman, Tamaz Gaiashvili.
On February 24, 2022, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.
Former US Treasury extended sanctions against Russia.