Former Odesa regional administration head and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said he is aware of plans to deprive him of Ukrainian citizenship being considered in the Ukrainian presidential office.

"A very well-informed source told me that President [Petro] Poroshenko has instructed [deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction] Ihor Kononenko and his sidekick [Oleksandr] Hranovsky [a Petro Poroshenko Bloc member], an informal supervisor of judicial cases in the presidential office's corruption pyramid, to start preparations for depriving me of citizenship by court," Saakashvili said on Facebook.

He stressed that international law and Ukrainian legislation do not allow for depriving a Ukrainian citizen of citizenship if they have no other citizenship.

Saakashvili announced his resignation as head of the Odesa regional administration on November 7, 2016, saying he was tired of regular deceit and corruption, including among top officials in Kyiv. The Ukrainian government endorsed Saakashvili's resignation on November 9. The same day, President Poroshenko relived him of his gubernatorial duties.

Poroshenko granted Saakashvili Ukrainian citizenship in May 2015.