MOSCOW — The Ukrainian police on Feb. 28 questioned Ukraine’s former president, Petro O. Poroshenko, after threatening to arrest him if he failed to appear, in what a growing chorus of critics including the European Union say is a politically motivated vendetta.
New York Times: Ukraine is threatening to arrest its former president
Then-Ukraine's President and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko (L) attends a policy debate with his rival, comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium on April 19, 2019, in Kyiv. Zelensky won the presidential election two days later, on April 21, 2019, becoming the sixth president of Ukraine.
