Leader of Rukh Novykh Sil (or the Movement of New Forces) Mikheil Saakashvili has asked Kiev residents to protect him from Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, TASS reports.
"Poroshenko wants to extradite me. I ask Kiev residents and all other honest people for protection. I will protect you but you need to come and protect me as well," Saakashvili said in a statement broadcast by the NewsOne TV channel.
"I am a pain in the neck for them, so they want to extradite me," he said.
"Those whom we brought to power during Maidan now want to extradite me over a case initiated after the Maidan events were over, in revenge for my participation. I ask the Ukrainian people for protection," Saakashvili stated, adding that he could be found at the square in front of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament).
