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Former Georgian President and ex-governor of Odesa Oblast Mikheil Saakashvili arrived at Kyiv Boryspil airport on May 29, in a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy restored his Ukrainian citizenship.
Saakashvili was granted Ukrainian citizenship by former President Petro Poroshenko in 2015, but lost it after he started sharply criticizing Poroshenko and his allies for corruption. He was forcibly deported from the country in 2018, a move which Poroshenko’s critics deemed a political repression.
On May 28, Zelenskiy, who is just in his second week in office, restored his citizenship, for which Saakashvili thanked him and promised to help the new president “to unleash (Ukraine’s) huge potential.”
