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mo4ch:>Guess who’s back? Ukraine returns citizenship to eccentric former Georgian president Saakashvili | Mo4ch News

Ukraine’s newly minted President Volodymyr Zelensky has restored the Ukrainian citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and onetime governor of Odessa.“Thank you President Zelensky! Glory to Ukraine,” Saakashvili announced on Facebook on Tuesday, linking to the presidential decree granting him re-entry. Saakashvili later said he will return to Ukraine on Wednesday.Saakashvili served as Georgia’s head of state from 2004 to 2007, and again from 2008 to 2013. He presided over the caucasian state during its conflict with Russia in 2008, and traded his Georgian citizenship for Ukrainian papers in 2015. After serving as governor of the Odessa region, Saakashvili was booted from Ukraine by then-President Petro Poroshenko in 2017, and barred from entering the country until 2021.Also on rt.comEx-Georgian leader Saakashvili calling for Poroshenko’s impeachment deported from Ukraine to PolandPrior to kicking Saakashvili from Ukraine, Poroshenko had sheltered the former G…