Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili had already lost his Georgian citizenship.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stripped former ally turned rival Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, local media reported Wednesday.

Saakashvili wrote on Facebook that “deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship is another step to the foundation of a dictatorship.”

Saakashvili, who was president of Georgia in 2004-2007 and 2008-2014, lost his Georgian citizenship in December. He has been accused by Georgian authorities of exceeding his authority and misusing state funds.

Poroshenko gave his former ally Ukrainian citizenship in May 2015, and appointed him as the governor of the Odessa region. But Saakashvili resigned from the role in November 2016, and accused Poroshenko of “personally supporting” corruption.

He then started an opposition party, Mikheil Saakashvili’s Movement of New Forces, which criticized Ukrainian authorities and pledged to “bring a new generation into the political elite.”

The migration service did not state the exact reason for Saakashvili’s loss of citizenship, Reuters reported.

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