The last time Mikheil Saakashvili grabbed the headlines in Ukraine was when he was filmed climbing onto the roof of an apartment block in Kyiv, the capital, as he was being chased by security men. That was in December 2017, when the former president of Georgia, who had bizarrely become a prominent politician in Ukraine, was being hounded by Ukraine’s then president, Petro Poroshenko, a one-time friend who had invited him to Ukraine and then turned against him.
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Mikheil Saakashvili talks to the media after his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's "Servant of the People" ruling party members in Kyiv on April 24, 2020.
