Polish border service on Monday confirmed that Georgia's former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has arrived and was allowed to enter Poland. The former Georgian leader was deported from Ukraine after he was seized by armed border service officers in Kiev. The 50-year-old ruled Georgia for nine years until 2013. He acquired Ukrainian citizenship in 2015 under President Poroshenko's rule and was appointed governor of the Odessa region later. His Ukrainian citizenship was revoked in 2016 after he resigned the governor post in protest at Poroshenko. Saakashvili's deportation on Monday came a week after a court in Kiev rejected his appeal against extradition to Georgia, where he faces three years behind bars on charges of illegally pardoning police officers accused of murder.