Kuleba: After Saakashvili’s footage, ‘everything reached a boiling point’ 

Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, criticised the actions of the Georgian authorities regarding the Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili, whom Tbilisi does not let go abroad for treatment, and announced the summons of the Georgian ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Report informs, citing Ukrainska Pravda.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that after the posting of footage from today's court session regarding Saakashvili, where he has an extremely malnourished and exhausted appearance, "everything reached a boiling point", causing Kyiv to take a "drastic but fair step."

"When the state is dissatisfied with something, the first level of reaction is to express a protest. The second level of reaction is to recall its ambassador for consultations," Kuleba said.

"And the third level of reaction, several levels higher in severity, is to ask the ambassador of this country to leave Ukraine for consultations with his government. In diplomacy, this is an extremely harsh form, but the Georgian government deserves it," he added.

The minister announced that the ambassador of Georgia would be summoned on Tuesday morning, after which he would "have an appropriate conversation".

"And he should consult with his government, actually, about where Georgia is going and why they are destroying Georgian-Ukrainian relations and what they should do to save them," he noted.