Kyiv
Reuters
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Ukraine imposed sanctions on former president and opposition politician Petro Poroshenko, including an asset freeze and a ban on withdrawing capital from the country, for what the domestic spy agency said on Thursday were “national security” reasons.
Poroshenko, one of Ukraine’s richest men who heads the largest opposition party in Ukraine’s parliament, served as president from 2014 until 2019 when he lost his bid for a second term at an election won by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The 59-year-old confectionary magnate, sometimes referred to as “the Chocolate King,” sees Zelensky as a long-standing political rival and accused the Ukrainian…
