Ex-head of Odessa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili has claimed that Ukrainian law enforcements ostensibly took away his passports in time of searching in the bus on which he was moving through Polish-Ukrainian border. Zn.ua website reports about it.

‘I crossed Polish border with legal Ukrainian document, Poles stamped it. I came to Ukrainians, as law provides, gave a passport for them to refuse or accept and they said: ‘We won’t take your passport’, Saakashvili told on briefing in Lviv.

He noted that also offered staff of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine to to accept from him a request for recognition as a person in need of additional protection.

Saakashvili added that Security Services representatives have searched a bus and passport disappeared after that. Ex-president of Georgia suggested to media ‘to draw conclusions by themselves’.

According to the words of politician’s attorney Markin Galabal, Saakashvili wrote a statement to the State Migration Service with the request to provide him a status of a person in need of additional protection. Zaxid.net has reported about it.

We would remind that law enforcements claimed that they will react on the situation with the breakthrough of a border with Poland of the supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili. PR-Director of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Artem Shevchenko has reported about it.

The Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov called this incident a ‘humiliating picture’, ‘an attack on the basic institutions of the state for the sake of momentary political interests’.