The Latest: Saakashvili blocked on Poland-Ukraine border

Former Georgian President and former Ukraine official, Mikheil Shaakashvili sits in a train with his son Nikoloz in the south-eastern city of Przemysl, Poland, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, before setting off in an attempt to return to Ukraine although both his Ukrainian and Georgia passports are no longer valid. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) Former Georgian President and former Ukraine official, Mikheil Shaakashvili sits in a train with his son Nikoloz in the south-eastern city of Przemysl, Poland, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, before setting off in an attempt to return to Ukraine although both his Ukrainian and Georgia passports are no longer valid. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

By Associated Press September 10, 2017 4 min read

ON THE POLAND-UKRAINE BORDER (AP) – The Latest on former Georgia president and Ukraine governor Mikheil Saakashvili’s attempt to enter Ukraine (all times local):

7 p.m.

Mihkeil Saakashvili has been allowed to pass through a Polish checkpoint on the border with Ukraine, but a line of border guards standing arm-in-arm are blocking his approach to the Ukrainian checkpoint.

Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and later governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship in July and is now stateless. He was aiming Sunday to return to Ukraine to challenge the revocation of his citizenship, but Ukraine has said his entry will be blocked.

He tried to travel to the Ukrainian city of Lviv on a train, but it was held in a Polish city until he got off. He then traveled by bus to the Medyka-Shehyni border crossing.