Former President of Ukraine, leader of the European Solidarity Party Petro Poroshenko went on a & nbsp; diplomatic visit to & nbsp; Turkey and & nbsp; Poland, the press service of the political force in & nbsp; Facebook.
The politician's departure for the & nbsp; border took place on the & nbsp; that & nbsp; day when the investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of the country tried to hand him a summons for & nbsp; interrogation in & nbsp; a criminal case on & nbsp; illegal coal supplies from & nbsp; self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk people & nbsp; The & nbsp; video published by the department shows that & nbsp; Poroshenko ignored the bureau's employees and & nbsp; drove off in & nbsp; a car.
The European Solidarity statement said that it was a pre-planned diplomatic tour.
On December 18 and & nbsp; 19 & nbsp; Poroshenko will hold several meetings in & nbsp; Turkey, in & nbsp; including with & nbsp; Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and & nbsp; in & nbsp; the next two days in & nbsp; Poland will participate in & nbsp; international conference & laquo; Russia & nbsp; Ukraine & nbsp; & mdash; NATO: escalating tensions on the & nbsp; eastern flank.
With this & nbsp; Strana.ua; reports with a & nbsp; reference to & nbsp; a source in the & nbsp; investigative authorities that & nbsp; Poroshenko bought a ticket for & nbsp; plane in the evening on & nbsp; Friday, 17 & nbsp; December. This happened shortly after the publication with & nbsp; citing a & nbsp; source in the & nbsp; RRB wrote that on December 20 & nbsp; they were going to bring him suspicion in the & nbsp; & nbsp; coal supply case.
The case of & nbsp; supplies of coal from the & nbsp; self-proclaimed DPR and & nbsp; LPR is being investigated according to & nbsp; h. 1 and & nbsp; h. 3 tbsp. 258 & minus; 5 (financing of terrorism), part 1 of article & nbsp; 111 (high treason) and & nbsp; h. 1 tbsp. 258 & minus; 3 (creation of a terrorist organization) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. One of the & nbsp; defendants & nbsp; & mdash; head of the political council of the Ukrainian party Opposition Platform & nbsp; & mdash; For & nbsp; life & raquo; (HLP) Viktor Medvedchuk. On October 8 & nbsp; he was accused of & nbsp; high treason and & nbsp; assistance to the activities of a terrorist organization. The former Minister of Energy of Ukraine is also involved in the & nbsp; case, Hromadske.ua wrote that & nbsp; we are talking about & nbsp; Volodymyr Demchyshyn.
In & nbsp; October, the Security Service of Ukraine reported that & nbsp; is checking Poroshenko for & nbsp; involvement in the & nbsp; case. This happened after the publication of the recordings of Medvedchuk's conversations, in which the name of the ex-president appeared.
Poroshenko denies the accusations and & nbsp; considers them & nbsp; “a classic example of fabricated, politically motivated cases and & nbsp; black PR against political opponents.” After the incident with & nbsp; employees of the RRG on December 17 & nbsp; European Solidarity accused the current Ukrainian authorities of & nbsp; & quot; persecution of the opposition leader & raquo ;.
In & nbsp; March 2017, in & nbsp; response to & nbsp; the transport blockade of Donbass from & nbsp; the side of Kiev, the authorities of the DPR and & nbsp; LPR introduced into the enterprises of the & nbsp & nbsp; Ukrainian enterprises in the & nbsp & nbsp; external management. According to & nbsp; data of the Ukrainian authorities, from & nbsp; Donbass annually export 2.8 & nbsp; million tons & nbsp; of & nbsp; $ 288 & nbsp; million through & nbsp; uncontrolled by Ukraine section of the border with & nbsp; Russia near & nbsp; Rostov region. Part of the coal is supplied to & nbsp; enterprises of the Rostov region, the rest is exported to & nbsp; other countries. Kiev considers the export of coal mined in the & nbsp; LPR and & nbsp; DPR territories illegal.