The former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, says he will go back to Ukraine to mobilise his supporters there, in defiance of Kyiv’s decision to strip him of Ukrainian citizenship.
BBC: Georgia ex-leader Saakashvili plans defiant return to Ukraine
(FILES) This file photo taken on Nov. 27, 2016 shows former Georgian president and former governor of Ukraine's Odesa Mikheil Saakashvili smiling during a rally in Kyiv. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on July 27, he has stripped former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, paving the way for his possible extradition to Georgia. The charismatic reformer came to power in Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution but then fell from grace and is now wanted by Georgian prosecutors on charges of abuse of office during his nine-year rule that he insists are politically motivated.
