On November 2, 2023, the fake Facebook account “Daat Tsabadze” published a post about the deployment of the Ukrainian landing party near Sochi in the Facebook group “Servant of the Georgian People.” According to the published post, the “Saakashvili regiment” of the special operation forces of the Ukrainian army made a landing near the outskirts of Sochi. According to the fake account, the marines are engaged in a fierce battle with the retreating occupiers.
The disseminated information is false. The claim that the “Saakashvili regiment” made a landing near the outskirts of Sochi is not found in any reliable source, and the photo is from 2017.
The disseminated information about the deployment of a landing party in the outskirts of Sochi is false and was spread by a fake Facebook account; however, in the Facebook group where the mentioned information was spread, the members perceived it as real information. The “Mikhail Saakashvili Regiment”, which is part of the Ukrainian army, does not exist, and the photo attached to the post, which allegedly shows the landing party, was taken in 2017.
According to the information disseminated by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in 2017, the Ukrainian Military and Naval Forces carried out a ferry crossing within the framework of the “Unruly Stability-2017” command and staff exercise. In one of the ports, the troops unloaded naval units from the medium landing ship “Yuri Olefirenko”. In addition, marines conducted tactical training involving artillery units.
As for the Facebook group “Servant of the Georgian People”, it was created on March 22, 2023, and the initial name of the group was “Mikheil Saakashvili and Davit Arakhamia for Georgia”, and in September 2023 it became “Servant of the Georgian People”. The group is probably created to support Mikheil Saakashvili, although anyone can post in it.
About the Source
Daat Tsabadze is a pro-Russian troll who has been active on social media since 2019. It participated in the discrediting campaign of the anti-occupation protest. In February 2021, after the arrest of Nika Melia, he criticized American democracy. False information disseminated by the user has been verified by “Myth Detector” in the past as well.
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