(ANSA-AP) - KIEV, MAY 29 - Georgia's ex-President Mikheil
Saakashvili has arrived in Ukraine a day after its new leader
reinstated his citizenship. Saakashvili arrived in Kiev on
Wednesday following the decision by Ukraine's new president,
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to restore his citizenship. He praised
Zelenskiy for a "quick and brave" decision to give back his
citizenship.
Speaking to reporters at Kiev's airport, he promised to help
make Ukraine "the most successful country in Europe."
Saakashvili took up Ukrainian citizenship in 2015 after giving
up citizenship of his native Georgia where he faced abuse of
power charges related to his time as president between 2004 and
2013. He moved to Ukraine, where then-president Petro Poroshenko
appointed him governor of Odessa region. The two fell out and
Saakashvili was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship in 2017.
(ANSA-AP).
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