Border guards did not allow former president Petro Poroshenko to leave Ukraine for international meetings, since the permission of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada for a business trip was canceled.
Poroshenko announced this on his Facebook on Friday, December 1.
"Again theater of absurdity on the border. I have a business trip signed by the head of the Verkhovna Rada, but the border guards did not let me through. I am far from the idea that the border guards acted on their own initiative. Everyone can guess who canceled the document signed by the speaker of parliament," the politician wrote.
Poroshenko said that he had meetings planned in the United States and Poland on financing military assistance and unlocking borders, respectively. A meeting with new House Speaker Mike Johnson was also disrupted, he said. Poroshenko called the disrupted trip "a blow to the country's defense capability."
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on July 26, 2017, Poroshenko terminated Saakashvili's Ukrainian citizenship by decree.
On February 12, 2018, employees of the State Border Guard Service expelled the former President of Georgia, the leader of the Movement of New Forces political party Mikheil Saakashvili to Poland on readmission.
In May 2018, the court postponed an indefinite hearing on Saakashvili's citizenship.
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