Former Governor of Odessa region Mikheil Saakashvili will be deprived of passport if he tries to enter Ukraine, First Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Border Guard Service Vasyl Servatiuk said.
"The State Border Guard Service has a decree issued by the Ukrainian president and relevant instructions from the State Migration Service of Ukraine. In accordance with this, the Border Guard Service officers have to confiscate Saakashvili's passport or any other passport detected in the database during passport control and [listed as] invalid," Sputnik cited Servatiuk as saying.
According to Servatiuk, confiscation of a passport deprives an individual of the right to cross the national borders of Ukraine. The deputy head of the Ukrainian Border Guard Service added that there had been no information from the Ukrainian Security Forces about Saakashvili being prohibited from entering Ukraine.
On July 26, Ukraine’s migration service released information on removal of Ukrainian citizenship from Saakashvili under President Pyotr Poroshenko’s order.
