President's rep is no-show in court on sanctions against Poroshenko
The representative of the President of Ukraine did not appear at the meeting of the Board of Judges of the Cassation Administrative Court of the Supreme Court, where consideration of the lawsuit of the People’s Deputy, leader of the European Solidarity party Petro Poroshenko, to cancel the decree on the introduction of sanctions against him continues, the political force’s website reported on Monday.
Poroshenko believes that the authorities are artificially delaying the process. "There are no illusions that they will not win this case. The only winning tactic for them is to drag it out for 11 months," he said.
The politician also emphasizes that he remains the object of violation of electoral rights, cannot open an electoral account, sign electoral documents and participate in the elections, if they are appointed.
As reported, on February 13, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy 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 people’s deputies of Ukraine, 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." 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, in 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 apply sanctions.
