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 Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has pledged to return to Ukraine early next month, despite a warning from Ukrainian border guards that he could be barred and a new deportation request from his homeland.
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko revoked Mr Saakashvili’s citizenship last month, due to alleged irregularities on the application form he completed in 2015, when he came to Ukraine to help its western-backed reform drive.