#ABKHAZIA

Poland has said it does not “recognize the legality” of presidential elections in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, adding that Warsaw opposes any actions that undermine the sovereignty of the South Caucasus country.

Russia is steadily expanding a new naval base in Abkhazia as part of efforts to bolster its Black Sea fleet, which suffered heavy losses in Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Russia will start humanitarian supplies of electricity to Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Moscow, from Monday, Russian news agencies have quoted local officials as saying.

The leader of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, warned on Saturday that the republic was facing a “humanitarian catastrophe” due to a critical shortage of electricity.

A politician has been shot dead at the parliament building of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, authorities said.

The leader of the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after a deal allowing for the expansion of Russian business in the republic led to mass protests and the opposition seizing government buildings.

Most of the world recognises Abkhazia as part of Georgia, from which it broke away during wars in the early 1990s.