Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been in prison for five years, found himself involved in another trial - this time a family one. His former lover, member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Elizaveta Yasko, is seeking to collect alimony for their three-year-old daughter Yasmin. In addition, she demands that Saakashvili be deprived of parental rights. At one time, their affair was one of the most discussed stories in Georgian politics. The couple publicly announced their relationship in the fall of 2021, when Saakashvili was arrested after secretly returning to Georgia. Yasko supported him during his imprisonment, came to Georgia and talked about his situation. In 2023 she announced the birth of her daughter. "My child is my love. For Dad, our child is his Ukrainian roots and the Ukrainian continuation he dreamed of," Yasko wrote at the time. The girl's name was Yasmin. She took her mother's last name. Now the story continues in the courts of Ukraine. The trial has been ongoing since April 2026. Yasko demands to collect from Saakashvili a third of his income for the upkeep of his daughter, as well as to deprive him of parental rights.
First, an unexpected legal problem arose: the Ukrainian court was unable to determine Saakashvili's official registered residence and refused to issue a court order for the collection of alimony.
At the same time, the former president of Georgia has been under arrest in his country since October 2021. Saakashvili has already responded to reports of the lawsuit. He stated that he loved his daughter, but because of his imprisonment he could not meet her in person.
According to him, his mother Julie Alasanya repeatedly visited her granddaughter, helped her with money every month and sold part of the family property in Georgia to give the girl an apartment in the center of Kyiv.
The Ukrainian media estimates the cost of the apartment, which is apparently intended, at about 5.6 million hryvnias.
At the same time, Saakashvili did not publicly criticize Yasko.