Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who served as governor of the Odesa regional state administration and now leads the People’s Movement of Ukraine, has said on Georgian television that he is prepared to fight Georgian and Ukrainian oligarchs to the end.
“If we move our hands both in Ukraine and in Georgia, we will defeat the oligarchs,” Saakashvili, who is currently in Lviv, said in an interview with the Rustavi 2 television company on September 12.
He mentioned two oligarchs in particular, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and Georgia’s ex-prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.
“Everyone saw how these two oligarchs got together to destroy me. Both Poroshenko and Ivanishvili continue to do business in Russia. I, along with others, must have become a symbol of resistance and struggle against them,” Saakasvhili said.
He has not ruled out that the current Ukrainian authorities could “kill, detain, [or] extradite” him.
But he is prepared to go to the end in his fight against “various oligarchs who have taken Ukraine and Georgia hostage,” Saakashvili said.
