The Georgian Foreign Ministry said on May 14 that it “condemns the so-called ‘referendum’ held” in Ukraine's Luhansk and Donetsk regions, which “lacks any kind of legitimacy.”

“Such steps do not serve the goal of stabilizing the situation in Ukraine,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

It reaffirmed Georgia’s support for Ukraine's “sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders” and for “the international efforts aimed at finding ways to resolve the situation in Ukraine.”