Ex-President Poroshenko Barred from Leaving Ukraine Amid Controversy
Ukraine's security service alleges a Russian plot involving a planned meeting with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
- Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was denied permission to leave Ukraine due to a planned meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, according to Ukraine's security service.
- Poroshenko's political party, European Solidarity, claimed he had only scheduled meetings in Poland and the United States.
- Ukraine's security service alleges that Russia planned to exploit the meeting with Orban to hurt Ukrainian interests.
- Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was left on the verge of a nuclear and radiation accident after it was unable to draw power from two of the lines connecting it to the local energy grid.
- Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russia launched 11 Iranian-made Shahed drones and one guided cruise missile overnight Saturday, with all but one of the drones reportedly destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses.