Petro Poroshenko
Petro Poroshenko is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. He served as the fifth President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. During his presidency, the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement was signed and visa-free travel with the European Union was introduced. He leads the European Solidarity party and is the owner of the Roshen confectionery corporation, making him one of Ukraine's wealthiest individuals.
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Klitschko tells Rada Kyiv is ready for winter, blames central authorities for criticism and blocked payments
Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko appeared in the Verkhovna Rada on 14 October 2026 after MPs summoned him the day before to report on the capital's preparations for the heating season. He rejected accusations that Kyiv was unprepared, catalogued generators, boiler houses and other backup measures, and turned on the central authorities, accusing them of "constant slaps" and of freezing funds. The session came after President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly criticised Kyiv's city government earlier in October for nearly missing Resilience Plan deadlines.
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Putin tells Valdai forum Ukraine must stay neutral, hints at nuclear use, rejects mutual strike halt
Vladimir Putin used a plenary address at the 23rd Valdai Discussion Club on October 1 to demand that Ukraine remain a neutral state, suggest nuclear weapons will eventually be used, and reject a mutual halt to strikes on ships and Russian oil refineries. He also restated that full control of Donbas and Ukraine's neutral status are conditions for any peace settlement, framed Trump's peace proposals as a "movement in the right direction" despite "difficult" decisions for Russia, and called for UN reform giving greater weight to Asia, Africa, and Latin America.