
Saakashvili appeals to Zelenskyi after transfer back to prison
Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili requested he be included in the list of civilian prisoners of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili requested he be included in the list of civilian prisoners of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha dismissed the accusations, saying only Georgia is to blame for its own failings at the accession process.

In his speech at the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi also said ‘Georgia is depend[ent] on Russia’.

Georgian Dream officials have been escalating their rhetoric against Ukraine in recent days.

Pro-Russian propagandists have echoed the allegations in recent days.

Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) said investigators were ‘considering’ connections between the arrests and the upcoming municipal elections.

An undisclosed number of Ukrainians still remain in a makeshift detention facility at the Georgian–Russian border.