Ukraine prevents ex-President Poroshenko from leaving the country
The Ukrainian ex-president, Petro Poroshenko, wants to leave the country - but is not allowed to. Officials at the border with Poland will not let him pass. The alleged reason: the opposition politician wants to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Ukrainian border officials have prevented ex-President Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country because he allegedly wanted to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Poroshenko posted a video on X showing a border crossing with Poland that he was not allowed to cross.
In the video, the 58-year-old holds up a piece of paper and says that this is his official permission to cross the border. Under martial law, Ukrainian officials must obtain special permission to travel abroad. "Once again the theater of the absurd at the border," Poroshenko writes in the post.
The Ukrainian secret service SBU has since confirmed that Poroshenko, who was head of state from 2014 to 2019, was turned away at the border on Friday. The reason for this was a planned meeting between the opposition MP and Orban, who has been criticized by Kiev for his pro-Russian stance.
Orban "systematically represents an anti-Ukrainian position", explained the SBU. Moscow had wanted to use the meeting "for its information and psychological operations against Ukraine". The SBU later called on the Ukrainian parliament to revoke Poroshenko's exit permit, as reported by the Kyiv Independent. Poroshenko himself did not mention any planned meeting with Orban, but stated that he wanted to talk about US military aid and the blockade of the border by Polish truck drivers at meetings in Poland and the USA, among other things.
Following his departure from office, Poroshenko was investigated for treason and corruption. The ex-president suspects that these were commissioned by his successor and political rival, the current head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Poroshenko's European Solidarity party is the second largest party in parliament after Zelensky's Servant of the People party.
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Source: www.ntv.de
