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Associated Press: Saakashvili in Poland preparing return to Ukraine next month

Published Aug. 18, 2017 at 11:39 am

(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.

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A former Georgian president and ex-governor of a Ukrainian region is in Poland preparing to return to Ukraine after being stripped of his citizenship by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Mikhail Saakashvili told The Associated Press in Warsaw on August 17 that he will attempt to cross from Poland into Ukraine at one of the land crossings on Sept. 10. He said his aim is to fight to get his citizenship back.