Deputy Head of the Office of the President, Iryna Mudra, is behind the disruption of the Supreme Court hearing, which was supposed to announce a decision today regarding Petro Poroshenko’s lawsuit to cancel illegal sanctions. Poroshenko told journalists this.
“A Supreme Court hearing was supposed to take place today. We were told the court is not in session. When the next court hearing will be is unknown. No one knows. Why? Because the authorities fear the law, the statutes, and justice,” Poroshenko emphasized.
He noted that, under the law’s norms, this judicial review should have lasted only two months. Instead, the authorities have been dragging it out for more than a year.
“In April 2025, a decision was supposed to be made. Now it is April 2026. A year has passed, and as of today, they are not adopting anything. The authorities tried to stall as much as they could. They added third parties. Sometimes they need the Ministry of Economy, then Financial Monitoring, then some ‘Vlasyuks’ from the Office of the President. Each time they were unable to come, each time there was a request to postpone. But in December, we had already gathered all the evidence,” Poroshenko recalled.
“Every crime has a name. And today I will give you two names. The first name is the organizer of all these processes. His name is Portnov. An anti-Maidan figure who threw people behind bars and shot at the Maidan. The author of the January 16 laws, Poroshenko, said.
“Another person, according to our sources in law enforcement and judicial bodies, is Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the Office of the President, who complained heavily that not all judges hear her, because that is exactly how a court performed by this Iryna Mudra should look. This is a huge harm to the state. Representatives of embassies and diplomatic missions of European Union countries were supposed to be present at the court today,” the opposition leader noted.
“This is not just about Poroshenko. No matter how much you try to convince the EU of the independence of the judicial branch, they will remind you of this hearing. Therefore, you have shot yourselves in the foot. All you had to do was let the decision be announced today. But now you are so confused that you don’t even know when to reschedule the court for,” the fifth President stated.
“You haven’t finished breaking the court yet. Not all judges have yielded to Mudra, and not all Supreme Court judges have turned into a Pechersk court or OAСK-2. And this means not all is lost. I want to appeal to the Supreme Court judges. If they didn’t allow one of you to appear and participate in the announcement of the decision today, do not postpone it for a month or a week. Hold this hearing tomorrow. Demonstrate your own independence. And why am I convinced that the truth will be protected? Because last week the European Court of Human Rights accepted my complaint for consideration, which happens very rarely, only when there are gross violations of Ukrainian legislation and the independence of the court,” Poroshenko said.
“Mudra’s actions are blocking our path to the European Union. Once before, Portnov, along with Yanukovych, tried to block this path in 2013; we didn’t let him. Similarly, now we will not let you stop Ukraine’s movement toward the European Union,” Poroshenko emphasized.
On the eve, Poroshenko’s lawyers stated that the authorities would continue to drag out the judicial process.
As is known, Petro Poroshenko is challenging Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decree on illegal sanctions in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court also added the ECHR decision of October 16, 2025, to the case materials. The European Court of Human Rights concluded that there are systemic problems in the Ukrainian sanctions system, particularly the lack of proper judicial control over the authorities’ sanctions decisions and the justification for imposing sanctions, even in wartime conditions and under the slogan of national security.
Previously, President Zelenskyy’s representative in the Supreme Court admitted that changes, which she called “technical edits,” were made to the signed Decree enacting the NSDC decision on sanctions against Poroshenko. Government representatives also stated that the sanctions against Poroshenko were introduced preventively, “for educational purposes.”
On July 31, a decision of the Vinnytsia District Administrative Court came into force following Petro Poroshenko’s lawsuit against the NSDC staff and the NSDC Secretary. The court noted that the current legislation of Ukraine does not provide for correcting errors or amending regulatory legal acts, including decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and Presidential Decrees, outside the established procedure for adopting the relevant act.
President Zelenskyy’s representative also previously confirmed during a hearing that the National Bank of Ukraine had illegally introduced financial restrictions against Petro Poroshenko.