The Administrative Court of Cassation, a division of the Supreme Court, denied the petition filed by People’s Deputy and fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to lift the sanctions imposed by a decision of the National Security and Defense Council.
The panel of judges announced this decision on Friday.
As previously reported, on February 13, 2025, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on the NSDC’s February 12 resolution “On the Application of Personal Special Economic and Other Restrictive Measures (Sanctions).” According to the annex to the document, sanctions were imposed against five individuals: Poroshenko, Igor
Kolomoyskyi, former owner of Finance and Credit Bank Konstantin Zhevago, former co-owner of PrivatBank Gennadiy Bogolyubov, and former lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk.
Poroshenko appealed the sanctions to the Supreme Court. On April 17, the court began hearing the lawsuit in the presence of Ukrainian members of parliament, as well as diplomats from the European Union delegation and representatives of the embassies of Germany, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Lithuania, and Denmark. Poroshenko’s representatives emphasize that the sanctions were imposed unlawfully against a Ukrainian citizen residing in the country, while only Russia considers him a “terrorist.” Consequently, there are no legal grounds for the sanctions.
On May 19, it was reported that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had accepted Poroshenko’s case for consideration. According to the politician’s defense attorney, Ilya Novikov, the lawyers filed two additional complaints: the first challenging the sanctions, and the second alleging a violation of the reasonable time limit for proceedings.
