Saakashvili and backers break through into Ukraine
The former Georgian president and a small group of supporters pushed their way through a line of guards at the Poland-Ukraine border.
Mikheil Saakashvili and a crowd of his supporters are proceeding into Ukraine on foot after breaking through a line of guards on the Polish-Ukrainian border.
Mr Saakashvili, a former Georgian president who later became governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, was stripped of his citizenship in July by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Mr Saakashvili called that move illegal and has vowed to return to contest it, although Ukraine said it would deny him entry.
He and a small group of supporters pushed their way through a line of guards at the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing.
The move came about eight hours after Mr Saakashvili set off from Poland on a trip that included an attempt to get into Ukraine by train, but the train would not leave with him on it.
