Ukraine's Zelenskiy summons Georgian ambassador over ailing ex-president

Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili appears on a screen via a video link from a clinic during a court hearing in the case of the violent dispersal of anti-government mass protests in 2007, in Tbilisi, Georgia July 3, 2023. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he would summon Georgia's ambassador to Ukraine over what he decried as the "public execution" of that country's jailed former president who had appeared unwell and severely emaciated at a court hearing.

In his nightly video message, Zelenskiy urged Georgian authorities to allow Mikheil Saakashvili, who holds Ukrainian citizenship, to come to Kyiv for medical treatment.