{"id":1305844,"date":"2025-10-14T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/three-fakes-about-poroshenko\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:21:48","slug":"three-fakes-about-poroshenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/three-fakes-about-poroshenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lies That Built the Myth About Poroshenko"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

If lies define your election campaign, you\u2019re already in trouble \u2014 because those lies can later be used to justify sanctions. That\u2019s exactly what happened to Ukraine\u2019s fifth president, Petro Poroshenko.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Journalists have obtained the documents on which the sanctions against Petro Poroshenko were based. And it turns out that those sanctions rested on just three small \u2014 but very deliberate \u2014 lies.<\/p>\n

The first lie: that Petro Poroshenko was a co-founder of the Party of Regions<\/strong>. Even Mykola Azarov has publicly denied this. Yet Poroshenko\u2019s opponents won\u2019t let it go.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what actually happened. In 2000, Poroshenko\u2019s party Solidarity<\/strong> was part of an interparty association called the Party of Regional Revival \u201cLabor Solidarity of Ukraine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

However, Solidarity refused to dissolve<\/strong> itself and join the new single party that would later become the Party of Regions \u2014 which, at that time, had no sign of either Kolesnikov or Yanukovych (they came much later).<\/p>\n

Just a few months later, Solidarity withdrew<\/strong> from the association altogether, explicitly rejecting the idea of forming a joint party. That\u2019s it \u2014 end of story.<\/p>\n\t\t