Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
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| February 16 2025 | Announced he would go to court against the sanctions after Members of European Solidarity blocked the Verkhovna Rada podium for two days in protest. |
| February 12 2025 | Poroshenko was sanctioned by Zelenskyy on suspicion of 'high treason' and assisting a terrorist organization, which Poroshenko claimed was politically motivated. |
| October 2024 | Poroshenko donated US$1 million worth of FPV drones to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. |
| May 2024 | Poroshenko was added to a wanted list by the Russian government along with President Zelenskyy and commander Oleksandr Pavliuk on unspecified criminal charges. |
| April 2024 | Poroshenko announced his intention to participate in the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election. |
| December 2023 | Once again, Poroshenko was prevented from leaving Ukraine despite having an official travel permit signed by Verkhovna Rada speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk. |
| July 2023 | Poroshenko criticized President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for failing to secure a NATO entry promise from Western leadership during the NATO summit in Vilnius. |
| 2022 | The court decided on a 'personal commitment' for Petro Poroshenko, requiring him to submit his passport and not leave Kyiv without permission. |
| 2022 | Following his return, the prosecutor's office requested that a court remand Poroshenko in pre-trial detention for two months, or compel him to pay a bail of ₴1 billion, wear an electronic bracelet, and stay in Kyiv. |
| May 2022 | Poroshenko expressed his inability to leave Ukraine for Lithuania, despite holding an official travel permit, but later managed to cross the Polish border to attend a political meeting on the war. |
| March 12 2022 | On the 17th day of the Russian invasion, Poroshenko personally handed over two 'Bandera-Mobiles', civilian pickup trucks retrofitted with machine guns, to the 206th Territorial Defense Battalion of Kyiv, along with 450 bulletproof vests. |
| February 25 2022 | Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko appeared on TV holding a Kalashnikov rifle alongside civil defense forces in Kyiv, expressing confidence that Ukraine would not be conquered by Putin. |
| January 17 2022 | Petro Poroshenko returned to Ukraine from Warsaw amidst ongoing legal troubles and accusations against him. |
| January 15 2022 | Petro Poroshenko announced via a video message on Facebook his plan to return to Ukraine on January 17 to defend Ukraine from Russian aggression. |
| January 6 2022 | A Ukrainian court seized Petro Poroshenko's property as part of the legal proceedings against him. |
| December 20 2021 | Petro Poroshenko was accused of state treason, aiding terrorist organizations, and financing terrorism over allegations of organizing the purchase of coal from separatist-controlled areas of Ukraine. |
| November 2021 | Petro Poroshenko was forced to sell his TV news channel 5 Kanal to comply with anti-oligarch legislation. |
| September 2020 | The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Andrii Derkach for attempting to influence the U.S. electoral process, alleging he has been an active Russian agent for over a decade with close connections to Russian intelligence. |
| May 2020 | Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker aligned with a pro-Russian faction, released edited recordings of private phone calls between then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and then-President Petro Poroshenko. The clips were used to make unsupported accusations but were consistent with official policies of the U.S. and Europe at the time. |
| 2019 | In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Petro Poroshenko was first on the party list of the European Solidarity party. |
| 2019 | Petro Poroshenko ran for a second presidential term but was defeated by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. |
| December 2019 | Derkach met with Rudolph W. Giuliani, setting the stage for the later release of edited phone call recordings. |
| December 20 2019 | Ukrainian law enforcement raided Petro Poroshenko's party headquarters and gym under the orders of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Hidden cameras and recording devices were discovered in the gym, which were allegedly used to secretly record Poroshenko's clients, including politicians and businessmen. The raid was part of ongoing criminal investigations into the alleged theft of classified information and tax evasion. |
| May 15 2019 | Poroshenko signed the law 'On provision of the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the State language', reinforcing the status of the Ukrainian language in various sectors of public life. |
| April 11 2019 | The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine was established, and Poroshenko signed the decree appointing the judges during an official ceremony. |
| January 5 2019 | Petro Poroshenko received the cross of Panagia Pammakaristos from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. |
| December 2018 | President Poroshenko confirmed the status of veterans and combatants for the independence of Ukraine for the armed units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). |
| November 2018 | A report by the EU Commission praised some of Ukraine's reforms during Poroshenko's presidency, particularly in healthcare, pensions, and public administration. |
| November 2018 | Martial law was introduced in Ukraine for a period of 30 days in late November 2018, following the Kerch Strait incident. |
| October 2018 | During a visit to Gomel, Belarus, Petro Poroshenko addressed the Ukrainian community about the situation in Ukraine, expressing his concern that he does 'not want Russia to use Belarus to get to our flank.' |
| October 15 2018 | The Moscow Patriarchate severed full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in response to the announcement of autocephaly for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. |
| October 11 2018 | The Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it would grant autocephaly to a Ukrainian church, a significant event during Petro Poroshenko's presidency. |
| June 27 2018 | Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin announced that following recommendations from the Venice Commission, the language provisions of the September 2017 law on education would not apply to private schools, allowing public schools for national minorities to determine the language of instruction for classes. |
| March 30 2018 | Poroshenko submitted his income declaration, revealing that he spent between 1.3 and 1.4 million UAH on his New Year's vacation, which was half of what journalists had reported. |
| January 1 2018 | Petro Poroshenko vacationed in the Maldives, reportedly spending $500,000 to rent separate islands and the most expensive hotel in the country. |
| 2017 | The BBC falsely accused Poroshenko of paying Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen to organize a meeting with Trump, which led to the BBC apologizing, deleting the article, and paying damages to Poroshenko. |
| September 25 2017 | President Poroshenko signed a new law on education which established the Ukrainian language as the language of instruction at all educational levels, with exceptions for certain subjects to be taught in English or other EU official languages. The law included a 3-year transitional period that would lead to full implementation. |
| July 2017 | Petro Poroshenko issued a decree stripping Mikheil Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship, a move seen by many observers as an attempt to sideline a political rival. |
| June 2017 | Poroshenko met with U.S. President Donald Trump, amidst a controversy involving allegations of payments to Trump's lawyer, which were later proven false. |
| February 2017 | In an interview, Petro Poroshenko announced plans to hold a referendum on whether Ukraine should join NATO. |
| 2016 | A new rule came into force requiring Ukraine's radio stations to play a quota of Ukrainian-language songs each day. This law also mandated that TV and radio broadcasters ensure that 60% of programs, such as news and analysis, are presented in Ukrainian. |
| January 2016 | Poroshenko announced he had relinquished the management of his businesses to a blind trust after his election as President of Ukraine. |
| 2015 | The Petro Poroshenko Bloc was renamed to 'Petro Poroshenko Bloc |
| 2015 | Petro Poroshenko spoke in defense of a planned gay pride march in Kyiv, asserting it as the constitutional right of every Ukrainian citizen and highlighting the compatibility of his roles as a Christian and a pro-European president. |
| 2015 | Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to create the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine to comply with the requirements of the International Monetary Fund. |
| December 7 2015 | Petro Poroshenko met with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Kyiv to discuss Ukrainian-American cooperation. |
| October 2015 | Petro Poroshenko visited the Kazakh capital of Astana, where he discussed Ukraine's relationship with Kazakhstan, emphasizing that Kazakhstan was Ukraine's 'window to Asia' and vice versa. |
| October 2015 | Ukrainian journal Novoye Vremya reported that Poroshenko was the only top ten wealthiest individual in Ukraine whose assets grew, with an estimated value of US$979 million, leading to a rise in his ranking from 9th to 6th. |
| September 22 2015 | During a speech, Petro Poroshenko asserted that Russia's aggressive actions underscored the necessity of NATO enlargement and stated that the referendum on NATO membership would occur once Ukraine met all membership criteria. |
| July 1 2015 | Poroshenko introduced a decentralization draft law that would allow local authorities to manage their tax revenues and granted the Donbas region partial self-rule for three years without giving it autonomous status as requested by pro-Russian rebels. |
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