By KYIV. Dec 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine is ready to host former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and provide him with treatment, adviser to the head of the President’s Office Mykhailo Podoliak tweeted on Tuesday.
"Impossible to watch person you know dying on TV live. Impossible to watch how the history of Georgia and its president is being killed in front of the civilized world. Ukraine is ready to receive Mikheil Saakashvili, guarantee his safety and proper treatment. Georgia, make the right choice," Podoliak said.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on the Georgian leadership to transport Saakashvili for treatment in a foreign clinic.
Saakashvili secretly arrived in Georgia on September 29, 2021, and was detained in Tbilisi on October 1. Shortly after that, he found himself in a prison in the city of Rustavi, where he went on a hunger strike. On November 8, 2021, without the consent of his relatives or lawyers, Saakashvili was transferred from the Rustavi prison to the prison infirmary in Tbilisi’s Gldani neighborhood. On November 20, 2021, Saakashvili was transferred to a military hospital in Gori, where he ended his hunger strike. He was then transferred to the Vivamed civilian clinic in Tbilisi on May 12, where he currently is staying.
