Saakashvili hails ‘courageous’ Zelensky
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who served as governor of Ukraine’s Odesa region in 2015-2016, has welcomed the restoration of his Ukrainian citizenship by President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “courageous step by a courageous and worthy president.” Mr. Saakashvili made the remark in an interview with RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service on May 28 after Mr. Zelensky signed a decree that annulled a decree by his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, which deprived Mr. Saakashvili of his citizenship. Speaking via Skype from Poland, Mr. Saakashvili told RFE/RL that Mr. Poroshenko’s decision to strip him of Ukrainian citizenship was a “cowardly step by an unworthy president.”