Sanctions on Poroshenko: Strategic Move or Just Clearing the Competition?

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How time flies… It’s already been a year since Zelenskyy slapped sanctions on Petro Poroshenko. “For what?” you ask. “No idea!” I reply. But as it later became clear, the sanctions were purely preemptive—just in case.

Well, really, who knows what Poroshenko might do after some time? He might suddenly decide to increase aid to the army. And so, fuck him and the army. Sanctions work… hee-hee-hee!

(Moreover, there are more and more signals that elections are coming soon. And accordingly, some on Bankova Street have started thinking ahead, trying to remove competitors from the chessboard. Of course, someone wants a second term, but for the first one, they will have to answer to tens of millions of Ukrainians. Both the living and those who did not survive the “May BBQ,” and there are enough questions for three hundred “stadiums.”

And it’s no wonder that almost a year has passed since Zelenskyy’s next powerful and unbreakable promise to tell everyone about how “billions… were withdrawn… financial monitoring showed” and all the rest, the traditional blah-blah-blah. He has these promises like a fool has candy wrappers.

And it doesn’t matter that five of those who happily voted for sanctions against Petro Poroshenko later turned out to be involved in a mega-corruption power scandal called “Mindichgate,” including the same Philip Pronin, head of the State Financial Monitoring Service. They say that he is now “financially monitoring” somewhere in Mexico.

But if Petro Poroshenko had been more pliant and had bought himself an indulgence from the “Bakanov, Naumov, and Friends” bureau, then there would have been no sanctions. Zelenskyy hinted at him, directly talking about some billions that needed to be “returned”… And he went to the Supreme Court! Oh, this Poroshenko! He broke such a scheme!

Recall that a year ago, indefinite sanctions were imposed on the fifth president and leader of the European Solidarity party, Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko is challenging Zelenskyy’s sanctions decree in the Supreme Court, arguing that it is illegal.

Poroshenko’s lawyer, Ilya Novikov, posted on his Facebook page the chronology of the drafting of sanctions, which was revealed during the trial. As is known, for a year, government representatives have not provided the public with the arguments justifying the imposition of the sanction against Petro Poroshenko.

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