Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed the Foreign Ministry to summon the Georgian ambassador to Kiev and protest him in connection with the ongoing imprisonment of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Zelensky also instructed the Foreign Ministry to ask the ambassador to leave Ukraine within 48 hours for consultations.
“Right now Russia is killing Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili at the hands of the Georgian authorities. We have repeatedly called on official Tbilisi to stop this mockery and agree on Saakashvili’s return to Ukraine. Our partners in coordination with Ukraine have also offered various rescue options. Today, I instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to summon the Georgian ambassador to Ukraine, protest him strongly and suggest he leave Ukraine within 48 hours to consult with his capital,” he wrote Monday in his Telegram channel.
“Once again, I call on the Georgian authorities to transfer Ukrainian citizen Mikhail Saakashvili to Ukraine for the necessary treatment and care. And I call on our partners to turn, not to ignore this situation and save this man. No government in Europe has the right to execute people, life is a basic European value,” he also wrote.
Earlier on Monday, video of Saakashvili’s interrogation was published, in which he looks severely thinner.
