Eurosolidarity on anniversary of sanctions against Poroshenko: this devalues the law designed to counter external threats to Ukraine's national security

The grounds for sanctions against Ukrainian MP and leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko have not been made public for a year since their introduction, according to a statement published on the political force's website on Thursday.

"For a year, those who fabricated and imposed these sanctions have not provided either society or the court considering the case of their illegality with any evidence of the existence of a threat to the national security of Ukraine from Poroshenko. The absence of such evidence was obvious to everyone from the very beginning. Even to the Security Service of Ukraine, which refused to fabricate the submission. It cost someone their positions, but it preserved their honor," said Volodymyr Vyatrovych, a people's deputy from the faction, on the anniversary of the imposition of sanctions against Poroshenko.

According to him, sanctions in Ukraine have turned into not only a political but also a commercial tool. "Sanctions are imposed, lifted, forgotten, and used for blackmail for money. And persons suspected of large-scale corruption and other abuses took part in the fabrication of sanctions against Poroshenko," the people's deputy noted.

"Such actions by Zelenskyy devalue the law on sanctions, designed to counter external threats to Ukraine's national security. They discredit the state authorities in the eyes of citizens, most of whom consider these sanctions to be politically motivated. They also discredit us before our European partners... These shameful sanctions must be abolished, and those who fabricated them must bear the deserved responsibility," Viatrovych stressed.

Co-chair of the European Solidarity parliamentary faction Iryna Gerashchenko noted that "this year we have not heard a single reason for sanctions, and in the meantime 120 criminal cases have been opened against Poroshenko."

"According to our information, in the near future there will be another provocation by the State Bureau of Investigation, which prepared searches at Poroshenko's house, in our faction. I want to say right away that we will regard such actions by the body, which was exposed on Mindich's tapes, which has long needed to be reformed, and this is a requirement of our European partners, as a continuation of the purge of the political field, a continuation of the purge of the opposition," Gerashchenko said.

As reported, on February 13, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of February 12, 2025 "On the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)." According to the appendix to the document, sanctions were imposed against five individuals: Poroshenko, Ihor Kolomoisky, former owner of the Finance and Credit bank Konstantin Zhevago, former co-owner of PrivatBank Gennady Boholiubov, and former People's Deputy Viktor Medvedchuk.

Poroshenko appealed the sanctions in the Supreme Court. On April 17, the court began considering the claim in the presence of Ukrainian MPs, as well as diplomats from the European Union mission, representatives of the embassies of Germany, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Lithuania, and Denmark. Poroshenko's representatives emphasize that the sanctions were imposed illegally as a citizen of Ukraine who is in the country, while only Russia considers him a "terrorist." Therefore, there are no grounds for sanctions under the law.

In December, the court attached to the case file the ECHR decision of October 16, 2025, by which the European Court of Human Rights recognizes that sanctioned persons in Ukraine do not have sufficient opportunity to protect their rights and due procedural guarantees during the judicial review of the decision to impose sanctions.