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The president's sanctions have been applied against a number of political and business figures with Ukrainian citizenship.
Current law does not prohibit people who are subject to sanctions in Ukraine from running for office. However, restrictive measures may prevent the use of financial instruments that are mandatory for an electoral campaign.
In particular, the opening of a campaign fund. This was reported by First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko in an interview with LB live.
“At the moment there is no direct ban. But technically, given that sanctions often include a prohibition on using financial instruments, I suspect they simply will not be able to use the financial instruments of elections. That is, they will not be able to open accounts for electoral funds,” he said.
Oleksandr Korniyenko added that any candidate activity must be funded from a campaign fund.
When asked directly whether Petro Poroshenko would be able to participate in the elections, he said he did not know and that they should wait to see if he wants to participate in the elections and in what role.
The president imposed sanctions against Petro Poroshenko in 2025 this year. This year the Supreme Court refused to lift them.
President Volodymyr Zelensky himself said that the sanctions were introduced because billions of hryvnias were moved outside Ukraine during the war. In his words, the sanctions can be lifted if the people against whom they were imposed return the funds to Ukraine and direct them to the army. More on this topic in the material “Sanctions against Poroshenko: reasons and consequences and why now?”.
Information that financial monitoring revealed money laundering through the fund had been reported earlier. This was discussed at one of the recent NSDC meetings. But Poroshenko was not mentioned then; they were talking about funding parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate.
The Supreme Court is considering Poroshenko's lawsuit seeking to declare the sanctions illegal from spring 2025.
The defense emphasizes that violations were committed during the application of the sanctions.
Olga Aivazovska, chair of the board of the OPORA network, explained that NSDC sanctions against Petro Poroshenko, including a prohibition on making transactions, could become an obstacle for the fifth president if he wanted to run in postwar elections.
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