Iraqi Kobakhidze, head of the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party, believes Ukrainian authorities are making aggressive demands against Georgia, TASS reported. According to him, we are talking about a statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling for the transfer of former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned in his hometown since October 2021, to Kiev.
“I don’t want to go into this issue in depth as it concerns the president of a country in conflict. general location [украинских] authorities, of course, aggressive, ”said Kobakhidze.
He also added that Zelenskiy’s demands annoyed the Georgian leadership not only because of the ties between the President of Ukraine and Saakashvili, but also because some Ukrainian officials contributed to the politician’s entry into his homeland in 2021.
Despite a series of criminal cases against him, Saakashvili secretly returned to his hometown in mid-autumn 2021. As a result, the former president of Georgia was arrested and imprisoned. Saakashvili himself said that his detention had become politicized and went on a hunger strike. Subsequently, the former president’s health seriously deteriorated, in May 2022 he was transferred from prison to a clinic in the capital for examination. Citing the situation of the politician, various European countries and Ukraine, of which he is a citizen, began to demand his transfer abroad for treatment. At the same time, the Georgian authorities reject all such calls.
Saakashvili had previously been advised in Georgia. attempt to evade justice by injuring oneself.