Mikhail Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia who has been working with Ukraine’s president as a nonstaff adviser since February, will be appointed as leader of the country’s Odessa region, multiple sources confirm.
According to RBC.ua, a source in the presidential administration confirmed Friday that President Petro Poroshenko signed the decree. A spokesman for the Odessa region administration announced that Saakashvili on Saturday will be presented as the new head of the region.
The idea that Saakashvili could become the Odessa region’s leader started circulating earlier Friday when Ukraine’s minister of ecology, Igor Shevchenko, posted a photo of Saakashvili on his official …read more
Source: Newsweek
