Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he was not allowed to leave Ukraine on a business trip to Poland and the US, the Ukrainian mass media have reported.
According to him, border guards refused to let him leave the territory of the state, despite his official business trip. Poroshenko stated:
“I am far from the opinion that the border guards acted on their own initiative. Everyone can guess for themselves who cancelled the document signed by the speaker of parliament [Ruslan Stefanchuk].”
He added that he was going to participate in “dozens of meetings” with Western officials in Poland and the US. Poroshenko stressed that during his visit to Washington, in particular, he was going to talk to the new speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson.
At the same time, last year the former Ukrainian president already faced problems with leaving the territory of the state. Border guards prevented Poroshenko from travelling abroad twice. However, at the third attempt, the former leader of the country still managed to go on a business trip to Europe. Earlier, Poroshenko named a condition for possible peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow.
