Around 500 residents of Ukraine's Odessa rallied on Sunday against the newly appointed governor, fugitive Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.
Saakashvili fled Georgia after the country's new president was elected in November 2013. Saakashvili was appointed as Odessa's governor on May 30, after a brief stint as an advisor to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko. In Georgia, he is accused of embezzling at least $5 million from the state for personal use.
"We were appointed a governor who has no relation to Odessa at all. Odessans, are there no worthy people among us?" activist Alexei Tsvetkov was quoted by Ukrainian media as saying.
During the rally, the leader of Odessa's Antimaidan, Moris Ibragim also spoke out in favor of a monument to the victims.
