Georgian ex-president Saakashvili to get Ukraine reform role - sources


FILE PHOTO: Former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili arrives at news conference in Warsaw, Poland September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

KIEV (Reuters) - Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, is set to join a Ukrainian advisory body on reforms, two sources in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office told Reuters.

Saakashvili's appointment will mark another comeback for one of the most recognisable figures in post-Soviet politics, who also served for a brief but turbulent spell in Ukraine under Zelenskiy's predecessor Petro Poroshenko.

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