Tens of thousands of Tbilisi residents are gathered outside Parliament in what, President Saakashvili said, was “a show of unity” amid ongoing Russian aggression.

Senior government officials are addressing the crowd, vowing that Georgia will not give up its freedom despite Russia’s “barbaric actions.” Georgian singers are performing patriotic songs.

“We will never surrender and we will tell this to the enemy thousands and thousands of times,” Giga Bokeria, the Georgian deputy foreign minister, told the crowd.