Monday, December 15, 2025

Saakashvili breaks through Ukraine border assisted by crowd of supporters

Yulia Timoshenko and Mikheil Saakashvili addressing a large crowd of journalists before boarding a train in Poland bound for Lviv, Ukraine
Mikheil Saakashvili addressing the media before boarding the train. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili broke through the border to Ukraine on Sunday, aided by a crowd of supporters.

At first, the train he was riding from Poland, bound for the Ukrainian city of Lviv, was held at the border in Przemysl,

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Saakashvili confirms pledge to enter Ukraine on September 10

Mikheil Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili made the pledge during a webcast from the Polish capital in mid August 2017. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili has repeated a pledge made three weeks ago to return to Ukraine on September 10, despite the risk of being detained and extradited to Georgia where he may face criminal charges and possible imprisonment.

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Georgian priest sentenced to nine years in prison for murder attempt

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Tbilisi court on Tuesday sentenced a high ranking cleric to nine years in prison for trying to kill the patriarch’s personal secretary with poison. The case has sent shock waves through Georgian society and revealed divisions within one

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