{"id":1357476,"date":"2026-02-13T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/anniversary-of-sanctions-against-poroshenko-a-preemptive-strike-or-elimination-of-a-competitor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:31:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:31:46","slug":"anniversary-of-sanctions-against-poroshenko-a-preemptive-strike-or-elimination-of-a-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/anniversary-of-sanctions-against-poroshenko-a-preemptive-strike-or-elimination-of-a-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions on Poroshenko: Strategic Move or Just Clearing the Competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alex.petrov.3975\/posts\/pfbid02AsKboHuVfZkz2uM9hHBzctpk6sc1tHcaorgKT4DtPyQavLFE7Z65cYt1te4j6Fusl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How time flies\u2026 It\u2019s already been a year since Zelenskyy slapped sanctions on Petro Poroshenko. \u201cFor what?\u201d you ask. \u201cNo idea!\u201d I reply. But as it later became clear, the sanctions were purely preemptive\u2014just in case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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\u2026 hee-hee-hee!<\/p>\n<p>(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 &#8220;May BBQ,&#8221; and there are enough questions for three hundred &#8220;stadiums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s no wonder that almost a year has passed since Zelenskyy&#8217;s next powerful and unbreakable promise to tell everyone about how &#8220;billions&#8230; were withdrawn&#8230; financial monitoring showed&#8221; and all the rest, the traditional blah-blah-blah. He has these promises like a fool has candy wrappers.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sanctions-and-elections-will-the-sanctions-mechanism-become-another-barrier\/\">Sanctions and elections: will the sanctions mechanism become another \u201cbarrier\u201d?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;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 &#8220;Mindichgate,&#8221; including the same Philip Pronin, head of the State Financial Monitoring Service. They say that he is now &#8220;financially monitoring&#8221; somewhere in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>But if Petro Poroshenko had been more pliant and had bought himself an indulgence from the &#8220;Bakanov, Naumov, and Friends&#8221; bureau, then there would have been no sanctions. Zelenskyy hinted at him, directly talking about some billions that needed to be &#8220;returned&#8221;&#8230; And he went to the Supreme Court! Oh, this Poroshenko! He broke such a scheme!<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s sanctions decree in the Supreme Court, arguing that it is illegal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Poroshenko&#8217;s lawyer, Ilya Novikov, posted on his Facebook page <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sanktsii-iak-start-vyborchoi-kampanii-advokat-poroshenka-illia-novikov-vidtvoryv-khronolohiiu-podiy\/\">the chronology of the drafting of sanctions<\/a>, 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\u00a0against Petro Poroshenko.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page How time flies\u2026 It\u2019s already been a year since Zelenskyy slapped sanctions on Petro Poroshenko. \u201cFor what?\u201d you ask. \u201cNo idea!\u201d I reply. But as it later became clear, the sanctions were purely preemptive\u2014just in case. Well, really, who knows what Poroshenko might do after some time? He might suddenly decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1357353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76991,76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1357476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358594,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357476\/revisions\/1358594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}