Former president of Georgia moves to tent camp outside Ukraine's parliament

Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian President turned fiery Ukrainian oppositionist who leads the Rukh Novikh Sil [New Forces Pathway] movement, on Tuesday moved to the protesters’ tent camp opposite the Verkhovna Rada national parliament, TASS reports.

He appeared there after reports said earlier on Tuesday the Ukrainian authorities had turned down a request to grant him a refugee status - a situation that poses a risk of his expulsion from the country.

Saakashvili, who is also a former Ukrainian citizen and a former governor of the country’s vital Odessa region, told an improvised rally he was planning to stay in one of the tents, for the purposes of which he had taken some warm clothes along with him.

In addition, he said he was awaiting the arrival of Civil Position party leader Anatoly Gritsenko and the mayor of the western city of Lvov, Andrei Sadovy, to discuss a plan for further actions.