They demolished from the roof

In Kyiv, employees of the Prosecutor General and Security Service of Ukraine detained the leader of the Party of New Forces, ex-governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili during a search in his apartment. This was reported by "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to the activists of the party and deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.

After the start of the search, Saakashvili went up to the roof of the house and turned to the assembled journalists and his supporters. "They want to kidnap me because I defended the Ukrainian people. They wanted to kidnap me unnoticed, but they did not succeed," Saakashvili said. He also urged Kiev residents to prevent lawlessness, and the security forces did not fulfill the “criminal orders”. Then the security forces took Saakashvili from the roof.

“According to our information, handcuffs were put on Mikhail and think how to withdraw it (from the house. - Ed.),” Said the ex -deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine, a member of the Rukh of the New Forces, David Sakvarelidze. Later it became known that Saakashvili was taken out of the apartment and put in a car. However, the supporters of the politician blocked the car and do not allow the security forces to take away Saakashvili.

At least five people were detained for resistance to law enforcement officers, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Artem Shevchenko said . “I directly saw a man with a knife who tried to cut the wheels of one of the law enforcement cars. He was detained,” he said. “He saw a woman who broke the rear window of the patrol car with stones. She was also detained.” In clashes with security officials, several people suffered.

According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Saakashvili was detained as part of the case under Part 1 of Article 256 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (assistance to participants in criminal organizations). The content of the charges is not disclosed.

"Searches are carried out as part of the case of financing rallies organized by the Saakashvili party in Kiev, representatives of the previous government," UNIAN reports with reference to his own sources.

The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow does not prefer any of the parties to the conflict. "We are observing with interest as a whole behind the picture of what is happening. Of course, this is the headache of Ukraine. You won’t wish this to the enemy, although we do not consider, of course, the Ukrainian people are an enemy," Peskov said.

In July, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko deprived Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship . At this time, the politician was outside Ukraine. On September 10, Saakashvili returned to the country from Poland surrounded by his supporters, who actually broke through the border .

Since October, supporters of Saakashvili have been holding rallies with a demand for the resignation of Poroshenko. On the last of them, which took place on December 3, Saakashvili called on to gather next weekend on Independence Square in Kyiv, if the authorities this week does not ensure the adoption of laws on the impeachment of the president in the Verkhovna Rada and the creation of an anti -corruption court.