Ukraine’s Former President Blocked From Leaving the Country
Reuters)-Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was averted from leaving Ukraine to take part in a meeting of a NATO body in Lithuania, his party’s administrative body said on Saturday.
Poroshenko was stopped doubly at a border crossing with Poland while he was on his way to the meeting of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly, a exemplary interparliamentary organisation, the statement said.
Ukrainian media reported Poroshenko couldn’t cross the border due to” specialized problems” with a permit allowing him to leave the country.
” Poroshenko had entered all the formal warrants to leave the country and had been included. in the sanctioned delegation of the Parliament of Ukraine for this event,” his European Solidarity administrative body said.
Poroshenko was to have a number of high- position meetings in Vilnius, including with the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda. He was also listed to share in a meeting of the European People’s Party in Rotterdam, it said.
In January, Poroshenko won a court ruling allowing him to remain at liberty while being delved for disloyalty in a inquiry he says was a politically motivated attack linked to abettors of his successor, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Poroshenko is being delved in connection with the backing of Russian- backed secessionists in the east of the country through illegal coal deals in 2014- 15.
