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On Monday, May 20, Gazprom-Media-owned TV station NTV aired a report on former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, accusing him of a litany of offenses, from being a CIA agent to marital infidelity, as well as fomenting unrest in Ukraine.UKRAINE – Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili delivers a speech on Independence Square in Kyiv on December 7, 2013The report -- featuring interviews with a masked man claiming to be a Ukrainian army officer and another, with his back to the camera, who claimed to have worked for Ukraine’s security services -- asserted that the organs of wounded Ukrainian soldiers were harvested in the Anti-Terrorist Operation Zone (Ukraine) in eastern Ukraine for export to Europe.EmbedshareRussian TV Digs Up Fabricated Organ Harvesting ClaimEmbedshareThe code has been copied to your clipboard.widthpxheightpxShare on Facebook Share on Twitter The URL has been copied to your clipboardNo media source currently available0:000:01:210:00Polygraph.info video fact check by Nik YarstThe men alleged that prior to the February 18, 2015 forced withdrawal of Ukrainian troops after the Battle of Debaltseve, Saakashvili’s wife, Sandra Roelofs, along with Alexander Kvitashvili, the former Georgian Minister of Health and a former Minister of Healthcare of Ukraine, quietly" brought a group of organ transplant specialists to Kyiv. The report claims that Roelofs and Kvitashvili then met with members of the Ukrainian General Staff to implement their scheme. The report
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