The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, stated that after the publication of the footage of Mikheil Saakashvili’s trial, “everything reached a boiling point”, which is why Kyiv took a “sharp but fair step”.
“When the state is dissatisfied with something, the first reaction is protest. The second is to summon the ambassador for consultations, and the third level of reaction, several steps higher in severity, is to ask the ambassador of that country to leave Ukraine for consultations with his government. This is an extremely harsh form of diplomacy, but the Government of Georgia deserves it,” Kuleba said.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine states that the Georgian authorities really want to execute Saakashvili out of personal hatred and revenge, and they are acting in the old Stalinist way.
“If they consider Saakashvili a threat to domestic politics – let him leave Georgia, let him live peacefully in Ukraine or another country in the world and you can continue to live there, get closer to Russia, if you want, but we see a blind, just cruel policy – to bring him to his death,” he noted.
