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Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian leader who is now an ardent opponent of Ukraine’s president, said corruption had inflicted far greater damage on Ukraine than Russia had.

Speaking one day after a judge rejected prosecutors’ request to put him under house arrest, Saakashvili said on December 12 that he had no ambitions himself to become Ukraine’s president, saying the position should always be held by an ethnic Ukrainian.

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