“It was precisely during Garibashvili’s time as prime minister that I was poisoned in Rustavi Prison, immediately after the war in Ukraine began. Perhaps they hoped that no one would notice my death amid the noise of the war,” Georgia’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, wrote on his Facebook page.

According to Saakashvili, his “poisoning would have been impossible without orders from the Russians and the main local mafia boss.”

“It was precisely during Garibashvili’s ‘premiership’ that I was poisoned in Rustavi Prison, immediately after the war in Ukraine began. Perhaps they hoped that no one would notice my death amid the noise of the war.

I suddenly developed seizures, nausea, a temperature of 41°C, severe pain, and many other symptoms. The suspicion that I had been poisoned was first raised by one of the prison doctors during a conversation with me. Later, a very good doctor at Vivamedi personally confirmed it to me again - although none of them dared to say so publicly.

After that, one of America’s leading toxicologists publicly confirmed the fact, based on data from laboratories in California and Germany.

My poisoning would have been impossible without orders from the Russians and the main local mafia boss. Apparently, the Russians did not have time to supply Novichok, so the people here used the most common method of poisoning - heavy metals.

Some time after my poisoning, Alexei Navalny was poisoned for the second time in a Russian prison, and this time he was killed. Putin used to call him the Russian ‘Saakashvili,’” Saakashvili wrote on social media.