Georgia ex-leader Saakashvili in Poland after Ukraine deportation

Feb 12, 2018

After falling out with Poroshenko, Saakashvili broke through the Ukrainian-Polish border with the help of his supporters last September

PIC: Former Georgian President Mikheil SaakashvilI. (Credit: AFP)

POLITICS | UKRAINE

POLAND - Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who fell out with Ukraine's leader Petro Poroshenko, landed in Poland on Monday after being deported from Ukraine, the Polish border guard service said.

"Mikheil Saakashvili was admitted onto Polish territory," the service's spokesperson Agnieszka Golias told AFP.

Ukraine's border guard service had earlier said the 50-year-old had resided in Ukraine "illegally" and had, therefore, been sent back to the country where he initially came from.

After falling out with Poroshenko, Saakashvili, who had been stripped of his passport, broke through the Ukrainian-Polish border with the help of his supporters last September.

AFP

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