UKRAINIAN police clashed with supporters of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili yesterday at their protest camp outside parliament, a day after he was dramatically freed from custody in Kiev.

Mr Saakashvili refused to hand himself in to police but challenged prosecutors to come and interview him at the small tent city near the Verkhovna Rada.

“I will not show up at the pseudo prosecutor-general’s office,” he said. “I am ready to talk to investigators here in the camp.”