This would be up to the migration service and border guards to decide, the president said on the eve of Saakashvili's expulsion.
Former Georgian president, now leader of the "Movement of New Forces" Party in Ukraine Mikheil Saakashvili predicts the authorities of Ukraine will attempt to deport him amid New Year holidays.
Ukraine’s security officials have deported eight Georgian citizens over their activities threatening the country’s national security, SBU press service wrote on Facebook.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on the nation to remember the residents forcibly evicted from the country's western regions to Siberia under Stalin's regime 70 years ago.
Kyiv police detained David Saakashvili, brother of former Georgian president and ex-Governor of Odesa Mikheil Saakashvili, for an invalid residence permit, Espreso.tv reports.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine said its operatives had blocked further destructive activities by Russian journalist Maria Kniazeva, who used the alias Saushkina in her reports from Ukraine for Rossiya-1 and Rossiya-24 TV channels.
The still-fresh historical wound of the 1944 deportation of 240,000 ethnic Tatars from Crimea has been reopened, with Russia’s illegal annexation of the Ukrainian territory in 2014 and Moscow’s continued repression of the Tatar community, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin's column published by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
Russia is doing everything to further drive Crimean Tatars from their native land, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said during a vigil in commemoration of victims of Crimean Tatar people’s genocide, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The Jayapura Immigration Office deported two Russians and one Ukrainian on Tuesday for immigration document violations, according to The Jakarta Post.
The occupation authorities in Russian-annexed Crimea this year once again banned the holding of mass remembrance events dedicated to the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Crimean Tatar people, as reported by TSN.
The Ukrainian citizen earlier detained in Russia’s Samara allegedly for spying for Ukraine’s intelligence services was deported from Russia to the militant-controlled area of Donetsk region, the self-styled “Donetsk People’s Republic,” TASS reported with reference to the regional office of the FSB Federal Security Service.