Petro Poroshenko speaks in front of the Pechora District Court. File photoDONETSK, June 6The Ukrainian media published a video in which the ex-president of Ukraine, who went abroad to participate in international events in Europe, walks around London. Earlier, Poroshenko left Ukraine on the third attempt to participate in international events in Europe, in particular, at the summit of the European People's Party which took place in Rotterdam. Reports began to appear in the media that, having left the country, the former president is thus trying to avoid punishment in a number of criminal cases brought against him. «Peter Poroshenko has already done his important state affairs abroad. Now you can walk around London,» The text was published by the Unian agency. In Ukraine, Poroshenko is suspected of treason and assistance to terrorism in the case of coal supplies from Donbass, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Earlier, the ex-president said that 130 criminal cases were initiated against him, but about 40 of them have already been closed.Poroshenko recalled Putin's words after the failed escape to Poland to Ukrainian TV channels a video recording of the testimony of the leader of the Opposition Platform — For Life, Viktor Medvedchuk, in which he claims that he illegally privatized the oil pipeline and organized the coal trade with the DPR and LPR on the direct instructions of Poroshenko, who provided the support of the entire state apparatus in these cases. The lawyer of the ex-president, Igor Golovan, said that these testimonies were not true. Medvedchuk himself was detained in April on behalf of Volodymyr Zelensky. He is accused of treason and aiding terrorism. The arrested politician and his wife turned to the Russian authorities with a request to exchange him for Ukrainian prisoners of war. In Moscow, this idea was rejected.
