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UKRAINIAN supporters of fugitive former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili freed him from a police van yesterday shortly after his dramatic rooftop arrest.
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) agents went to Mr Saakashvili’s Kiev flat to arrest the now-stateless ex-governor of Odessa province. In a dramatic turn of events he climbed onto the roof and threatened to jump off.
Mr Saakashvili’s attempted arrest followed accusations that he has been plotting to oust Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko whom he has branded a “criminal, thief and traitor.”
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict