With its leader firmly on the outside of international talks about its future, Ukraine was buffeted by domestic turbulence as former President Petro Poroshenko returned to Kyiv to face charges of treason and financing terrorism
to end a yearslong war in his country’s east.pursuing talks with the U.S.Firmly on the outside of international talks, Ukraine was buffeted by domestic turbulence Monday as pro-Western former President Petro Poroshenko returned to Kyiv from abroad to face charges of treason and financing terrorism. Mr. Poroshenko denies wrongdoing and says Mr. Zelensky is pursuing him as part of a political vendetta, something the president denies.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who was part of the delegation, said on Twitter that “it is important to show bipartisan U.S. support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.” Mr. Poroshenko said in an interview that Ukraine under Mr. Zelensky was returning to the kind of authoritarian control imposed by ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, who had his main opponent jailedUkrainian former President Petro Poroshenko, facing charges including treason, arrived Monday for a court hearing in Kyiv.Mr. Poroshenko said Mr. Zelensky was trying to distract attention from his own failings. “He doesn’t know what to do with the Russian aggression,” Mr. Poroshenko said.
“The United States is closely following the case against former President Poroshenko,” the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv wrote on Twitter when charges were announced last year. “Crucial that process and outcome be based on the rule of law, not politics.” “Any sensible and patriotic Ukrainian president would end up like this,” said former Defense Minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk.
Their administrations soon agreed to a prisoner swap, including the release of a famous Ukrainian film director and sailors detained under Mr. Poroshenko. Mr. Zelensky released a separatist allegedly involved in the downing of a Malaysian passenger jet who was captured in a daring special-forces raid.in the east, a dispute fomented by Russia, which carved out two self-declared separatist statelets there. Fighting has cost some 14,000 lives since 2014.
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