And Now He’s Warsaw’s Headache: Saakashvili’s Spectacular Deportation From Ukraine to Poland

Mikhail Saakashvili asks to be taken back to Ukraine. He stated this today in Warsaw at his first press conference after being deported. The deportation of Saakashvili was harsh: he wasn't even allowed to finish his khachapuri. Today, we got to know the details that are painful for Saakashvili to recall. Alexander Buzaladze is now in Warsaw and knows why. Mikhail Saakashvili arrived here, to Unia Lubelska Square, in high spirits, in spite of having been banished from the territory of Ukraine. His gave his first official interview to the Free Word Association. He chose to speak Russian to be understood better. Journalists from Ukraine and Georgia, where Saakashvili is long awaited in court, attacked him with questions. The press center was overcrowded. Exiled but unsubdued, Mikhail Saakashvili, like an actor at a premiere, came up and told how SBU soldiers detained him at a restaurant as if he were a crime boss. Mikhail Saakashvili: "A special forces team broke into the cafe, rounded me up, and pushed me into the car. They used sheer force, although I immediately told them that I could walk on my own". The videos of the capture are impressive. It was the SBU rematch. A few months ago, the specialists of the main security service failed to catch Saakashvili But this time, at the Suluguni restaurant, Saakashvili and his friends were a little tipsy after having Georgian wine and national food. Security officers literally dragged Saakashvili out to the street by the hair and put him into a special car. Mikhail Saakashvili: "On the way, they blindfolded and gagged me, using sheer force, and put me in a helicopter that spent a while flying over Kiev". Saakashvili confessed having flown to Poland in a special aircraft. Perhaps some of the businessmen close to Poroshenko paid for the charter. That's why the politician never showed up at the airport, where he was expected to arrive on a regular passenger flight. He was taken from the backyard without anyone seeing him. He managed to say only a few words for the Polish radio. Mikhail Saakashvili: "I love Poland, but my fight is in Ukraine and Georgia, and I'll fight till the end". We already know that Saakashvili called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asking her to intervene and prevent Ukraine from collapsing. At the end of his briefing, Saakashvili for some reason began to touch the microphone of the Russia 1 channel. Then he mentioned a legal document prohibiting his expulsion, and told us that his immediate plan is to go to the Netherlands to see his family, and after that, he intends to return to Ukraine. Alexander Buzaladze, Alexander Malyshev, Nikita Korunov, and Marina Naumova, Vesti from Poland.