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Why Ukraine deported opposition leader Saakashvili to Poland

Supporters of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili demonstrate holding a banner reading "Poroshenko is not our president" in front of the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko office, in Kiev [Sergei Supinsky, AFP]

Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili was deported to Poland on Monday, the Ukrainian border service said, after he was detained in a Kiev restaurant by law enforcement agents in camouflage.

Poland's border service confirmed that he had arrived and that Warsaw had agreed to let him enter.

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