Mikheil Saakashvili stripped of Ukrainian citizenship (video)
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and Ukrainian governor, was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship on July 26. Saakashvili's supporters called Poroshenko's action to strip Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship an "unconstitutional" reprisal for Saakashvili's criticisms. The former head of the Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili, made a video about Petro Poroshenko’s decision. “I am a simple Ukrainian! Today I am being subjected to the same approaches that are used by Ukraine’s prosecutors or bureaucrats against regular Ukrainians, whose rights are spat upon. I have lived in Ukraine for more than thirteen years, I participated in three revolutions, all of them in Ukraine. I have only one citizenship, that of Ukraine and I will not be deprived of it! Now there is an attempt under way to force me to become a refugee. This will not happen! I will not remain anywhere else and will not change status! I will fight for my legal right to return to Ukraine!” Mikheil Saakashvili said in a video address.
