There is no date yet for Ukrainians to go to the polls, nor is it known if they will do so in the middle of war. But Zelensky already starts to ‘squeeze’ with the rivals
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky approved, on Thursday, the decision of the Ukraine National Council for Security and Defense to impose sanctions against a group of heavy personalities in Ukraine, including former president and potential presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko.
According to, to approve the sanctions did not specify any reason, but Zelensky had already warned that he would sanction who had harmed the security of the country. “The thousands of millions made, equivalent to the sale of Ukraine, Ukrainian interests and Ukrainian security, should be blocked and used to protect Ukraine and Ukrainians,” Zelensky said.
Petro Poroshenko was president of Ukraine before Zelensky came to power and is one of the names for a possible race to the presidency, as he announced in 2024 – although he argues that a poll to the polls should not happen in war times, as read at. He is currently leader of the largest opposition party in the Ukrainian parliament. Poroshenko assets are now frozen and the former president is forbidden to remove capital from the country.
Another name appointed internally to the Ukrainian presidency is a man who until recently was the restricted circle of Zelensky. In this case, there were no economic sanctions, but an unexpected resignation, that of Valery Zaluzhny. The now former chief of the Ukraine Armed Forces is one, even though he failed the Ukrainian countereofensive. And its popularity may lead you to a candidacy for the presidency of Ukraine, according to local press. And this can be thrown to your advantage, since it writes, despite maintaining a high level of public confidence, Zelensky’s presidential assessment is in constant decline.
In the list of personalities who were, this Thursday, sanctions also includes names such as Ihor Kolomoisky (entrepreneur), KostyAntyn Zhevago (one of the main billionaires in the country) and Viktor Medvedchuk, former deputy accused of betrayal () and former Propivatbank co-owner Gennady Bogolyubov, reads no.
Sources close to the Ukraine National Security and Defense Council told what the sanctions were imposed because the entrepreneurs in question “have done activities in favor of Russia’s interest”, already in court proceedings about each episode in question.
