By Sergiy Karazy
WARSAW – Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on Sunday he planned to return to Ukraine on Monday despite the threat of arrest in a treason case he says was trumped up by allies of current President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Former Ukraine president defies arrest threat in showdown with successor
Ukrainian former President Petro Poroshenko meets with his supporters and journalists ahead of a news conference in Warsaw, Poland January 16, 2022. Poroshenko gives a press conference on the eve of his scheduled departure for Kyiv, where he faces a possible arrest on suspicion of high treason by financing pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine while in office in 2014-2015. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
