President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to call the Georgian ambassador and offer to leave Ukraine within 48 hours for consultations with Tbilisi. According to a message on the Telegram channel of the head of state, the reason for this decision was the deteriorating state of health of Mikheil Saakashvili, who is in custody.
The Ukrainian leader also called on Tbilisi to transfer Saakashvili to Kyiv for treatment.
Recall that the politician, who was deprived of Georgian citizenship in 2015 for obtaining a Ukrainian passport, was detained in Georgia in October 2021. In Georgia, several criminal cases have been initiated against Saakashvili, including abuse of office, beating of an ex-deputy and embezzlement of public funds for personal needs, illegal border crossing.
Saakashvili, 55, went on a hunger strike several times in the pre-trial detention center. The condition of the former president began to deteriorate, he was transferred to the hospital. In early December 2022, medical experts from several countries gave him a series of diagnoses incompatible with the conclusion.
However, in February a court in Tbilisi denied Saakashvili’s release on health grounds. Later it became known that the ECtHR did not satisfy the claim of his defense for a deferment of serving his sentence for the purpose of treatment in one of the foreign clinics.
Source: Rosbalt
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