The real battle broke out today, September 10, at the Polish-Ukrainian border, when Mikhail Saakashvili, the former Governor of the Odessa region decided to return to the territory of Ukraine. The problem was that the President Poroshenko has deprived Saakashvili of citizenship, as Ukrainian border guards were ordered to seize his internal and two passports as invalid. In addition, the notorious former President of Georgia banned the stay on the territory of Ukraine.
It should be noted that the return of the former Governor was the sight of a truly remarkable and extraordinary.
Sunday morning, Mikhail Saakashvili, announced the gathering in the Polish city of Rzeszow, where he was joined by the leader of the party «Fatherland» Yulia Tymoshenko, the former head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaychenko and other Ukrainian politicians. There he together with his associates decided to organize to go to the border and try to cross the border by rail, riding on a train from Przemysl. However, this attempt was not successful: passengers declared that the composition can not cross the border until the train is the person to be prohibited on the territory of Ukraine.
Saakashvili then moved to the bus, as it was planned earlier, and in the evening quite safely to the bandwidth border checkpoint «shehyni», where already gathered a lot of his supporters.
The flamboyant ex-Governor was able to freely pass the border control at the Polish side of the border, but on the Ukrainian side of the road was closed: SBU reported about mining of the Ukrainian checkpoint.
Saakashvili himself said that a Ukrainian checkpoint did not let him, and the road blocked commandos:
«We have special forces in the equipment of the Soviet Union, with shields. Gave the order, completely closed the checkpoint for all and we intend to keep close,» he said.
Then Mikhail Saakashvili surrounded by many of the support group decided to cross the border on foot. The crowd managed to break through the cordon of guards and Saakashvili finally appeared on the Ukrainian land: under the cries of «Misha» and «Victory» the people he almost made it across the border.
Saakashvili is already on the Ukrainian side. https://t.co/lkNsQvZ1kO pic.twitter.com/8AzIVDxeVm
— Gromadske (@HromadskeRU) September 10, 2017
The main purpose of his visit Mikheil Saakashvili calls the struggle for rights: «I’m going to apply to the Ukrainian courts to protect their civil rights, nothing more. To do this, we arrived in Ukraine!»
The journalist of Hromadske reports that Saakashvili came the car. Most likely, he will be able to get to the city unhindered, because people will not allow to detain him.
