What was Mikheil Saakashvili telling his voters? His rhetoric has hardly changed since 2016: he compares Ukraine with Georgia, focuses on Georgia’s successes under his presidency, and recalls the positive changes in Odessa when he was the governor of the oblast. His criticisms of the authorities and emphasis on Ukraine’s problems also remained unchanged.
VoxUkraine: A fact-check of the leader of the party ‘Movement of New Forces’
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili arrives in Kyiv, after the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy restored his citizenship, at Boryspil International Airport outside Kyiv on May 29, 2019.