Kyiv's foreign ministry has summoned the Georgian ambassador to Ukraine to "protest" the "deteriorating" conditions of former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili's detention, APA reports citing CNN news.

Recent photos of Saakashvili, who was given Ukrainian citizenship in 2015, show him visibly emaciated and frail.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed to the Georgian ambassador George Zakarashvili that the former Georgian president’s treatment is “absolutely unacceptable."

"The Georgian authorities must stop abusing the citizen of Ukraine.”

The ministry said it was willing to discuss Saakashvili’s transfer to Ukraine to receive medical care.

Source: Azeri-Press News Agency