Masked officers from Ukraine’s security services arrived early Tuesday morning to arrest Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president currently living here — but their plans went quickly awry. Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was briefly detained Dec. 5 in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, before his supporters freed him. Saakashvili’s supporters surrounded the vehicle and prevented it from leaving. In July, Ukrainian authorities — claiming irregularities in his citizenship application — revoked Saakashvili’s Ukrainian passport, and banned him from returning to Ukraine. As Saakashvili and his supporters gathered outside parliament, Lutsenko was inside laying out the case against the Georgian.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2017 21:46 UTC