Guram Rogava, journalist of the First Channel, addressed Mikheil Saakashvili with a few questions in the Ukrainian courtroom – what would you like to say to Georgian viewers? Do you think your extradition to Georgia will be carried out?  You noted that you consider yourself as a captive and not prisoner, whose captive are you?

Saakashvili answered to the journalist’s questions:

“I would like to repeat my son’s words, which he wrote on his facebook page – They thought they started defeating Misha, actually this is start of their end. I couldn’t say better, well done Nikusha!”

Ivanishvili should worry about this not me, there is no problem.

Have you seen Maidan full with people yesterday? Such number of people would change everything in Tbilisi. There are much more people in Tbilisi.

I’m the captive of Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian oligarchs”, – Saakashvili noted.

Kyiv’s Pechersk District Court is discussing the case of Mikheil saakashvili, the ex-governor of Odessa and former president of Georgia. The court session has started at 14:00 Tbilisi time.

The session is attended by Mikheil Saakashvili’s wife Sandra Roelofs, the leader of “Batkivschina” party Yulia  Tymoshenko and the journalists.

According to the press secretary of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor, the Prosecutor’s Office will ask for Saakashvili a preventive measure in the form of house arrest with the wearing of an electronic bracelet.

According to lawyer, the defense side will request Saakashvili’s released from the courtroom. The lawyer does not rule out that the parliamentarians will post bail for him.

According to Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office  Mikheil Saakashvili is suspected of committing the crime which is envisaged in the first part of the 15th article of Ukraine’s Criminal Code (criminal attempt), second part of the 28th article (criminal offense committed by a group of persons upon prior conspiracy) and second part of the 256th article (assistance to members of criminal organizations and covering up of their criminal activity). Saakashvili rejects the accusations.

Mikheil Saakashvili  was arrested on December 8 in Kyiv.