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Protesters hold a banner depicting former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, reading: “Poroshenko! Let Saakshvili go!”
VAGABOND former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was deported from Ukraine to Poland today after armed men wearing masks nabbed him in a Kiev restaurant and drove him to the airport.
Ukrainian border guard spokesman Oleh Slobodyan said Mr Saakashvili had been deported in accordance with court rulings that he was in Ukraine illegally. Poland let him in because Mr Saakashvili’s wife is Dutch, hence a EU citizen.
While Mr Saakashvili was feted during his time as Georgian president from 2004 to 2013 by Western leaders for his neoliberal economics and pro-Nato stance, he now faces several criminal charges there.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
