Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called himself and Alexei Navalny “enemies No. 1” for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also remembered political deaths in the Russian Federation.

“Politkovskaya, whom I knew very well, was killed, Nemtsov, with whom I had many disagreements, but I was very friendly with him, and now Navalny. Putin also publicly expressed his desire to hang me, he threatened from the very beginning, saying that I would go to prison, which would definitely destroy me. When Putin spoke about Navalny, he stated that he was the Russian Saakashvili. Before Vladimir Zelensky appeared, he said that Mikheil Saakashvili and Navalny were his number one enemies. He got rid of one enemy, the second is in his hands, since everything related to the Georgian penitentiary system is controlled by the Russian special services.”

Also at the next meeting in the Tbilisi City Court, Saakashvili stated that the Georgian government under his leadership was the most uncorrupt in the history of the country.

Mikheil Saakashvili has been under observation at the Vivamedi multidisciplinary clinic for more than a year and a half. He returned to Georgia from Ukraine at the end of September 2021 and was arrested, having been sentenced in absentia to imprisonment in two criminal cases. After his arrest, Saakashvili went on hunger strike three times.