KYIV, Feb. 8 Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal to grant political asylum to ex-head of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko «for humanitarian reasons» was a kind of trolling, indicating the instability of the Ukrainian authorities, says Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management. Putin, at a press conference in Moscow after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, said that he offered Poroshenko political asylum, he is ready do it now — «not because we really like or liked his policies, but for humanitarian reasons.» «Russia will always express certain signs of support for Poroshenko, since his condemnation means another stage in the destruction of the Minsk agreements that he signed. -secondly, this is such trolling, an attempt to show how unstable the Ukrainian government is today, since it cannot feel safe not a single Ukrainian president, and how this instability poses a threat to all neighbors,» Bortnik said in a comment to RIA Novosti on Tuesday. Poroshenko is suspected of treason and aiding 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. The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv had earlier released Poroshenko on personal commitment, obliging him to hand over his passports to travel abroad and not to travel outside Kyiv and the region without the permission of the investigator. Poroshenko said he was appealing the court's decision, as it would interfere with his political activities. The State Bureau of Investigation also appealed against the decision of the court, law enforcement officers insist on his arrest.
