Former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili wished Alexei Navalny "to survive, go free and achieve his desired goal." He wrote this in response to Navalny's appeal to the Georgian authorities with a request to release Saakashvili for treatment.
“With Alexei Navalny, in my opinion, the future president of what will soon be left of Russia, I have two things in common: that we are both equally irreconcilable with corruption and that we are both the main enemies for Vladimir Putin. I wish Alexei to survive, go free and achieve his desired goal,” Saakashvili wrote.
Navalny is currently serving a term in penal colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region. He has been in custody since January 2021. Recently it became known that he had health problems . His lawyer Vadim Kobzev said that the oppositionist lost 8 kg in two weeks in the ShIZO. Kobzev did not rule out that Navalny was being "punched" so that his health would deteriorate not sharply, but gradually.
Mikheil Saakashvili has been in custody since autumn 2021. In October 2021, he returned to Georgia and was immediately arrested, since back in 2018 a Georgian court sentenced him in absentia to six years in prison, finding him guilty of abuse of power. In early April, in a column for Politico, Saakashvili said that in prison he turned from a healthy and energetic man into a sick man with 20 diagnoses. He wrote that he would soon die if he did not receive medical care outside the country.