Former president of Georgia, ex-governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, said he had received an offer from Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to become Ukraine’s vice prime minister for reform.

“It is a great honor for me to receive an offer from President Zelensky to become deputy prime minister of the Ukrainian government for reform,” he wrote on Facebook.

He said that he had a meaningful conversation with the Prime Minister of Ukraine, during which they discussed in detail all the issues related to his "possible work in the government."

In February 2018, Saakashvili was detained in a restaurant in Kiev and deported to Poland. According to his lawyer, politics was banned from entering the country until 2021.