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Supporters of former Georgian president clash with police as they attempts to block the police van in which he is transported after being arrested, in downtown Kiev on December 5, 2017. Ukrainian security services on Tuesday arrested former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili after he climbed onto the roof of his apartment building and addressed supporters during a police raid. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said Saakashvili had been arrested on charges of assisting criminal organizations.Saakashvili left Georgia in 2013 after serving as president for nearly a decade, and later was appointed governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region. But he quit in 2016, complaining that his efforts to root out corruption were suffering from official obstruction.His Ukrainian citizenship was revoked this year while he was out of the country, but he returned in September after supporters broke through a police line at the Polish border.

Supporters of former Georgian president clash with police as they attempts to block the police van in which he is transported after being arrested, in downtown Kiev on December 5, 2017. Ukrainian security services on Tuesday arrested former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili after he climbed onto the roof of his apartment building and addressed supporters during a police raid. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) said Saakashvili had been arrested on charges of assisting criminal organizations.

Saakashvili left Georgia in 2013 after serving as president for nearly a decade, and later was appointed governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region. But he quit in 2016, complaining that his efforts to root out corruption were suffering from official obstruction.

His Ukrainian citizenship was revoked this year while he was out of the country, but he returned in September after supporters broke through a police line at the Polish border.