Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president-turned-Ukrainian opposition leader, was deported from Ukraine to Poland on Monday after being detained by armed, masked men at a restaurant in Kyiv and rushed to the airport, according to Ukrainian officials and his supporters. Since then, he has led repeated protests against Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the official corruption that still plagues the country. People hold a poster depicting Saakashvili and appealing to Poroshenko: 'Poroshenko! (Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)Upon his arrival in Poland, Saakashvili said his deportation showed Poroshenko's weakness. He denounced the Ukrainian president as a "sneaky speculator who wants to destroy Ukraine" in a Facebook statement.

Source: CBC News February 12, 2018 17:22 UTC