Putin offers Ukrainian president political asylum after talks with Macron Moscow is ready to offer political asylum to Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko and others who face political persecution in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a joint press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday. Putin noted that he'd first floated an offer of asylum to Poroshenko when the latter was still a sitting president. “I told him that if he had any difficulties in the future, Russia was ready to grant him political asylum,” Putin said, noting that Poroshenko appeared to laugh off the idea initially, responding to such a prospect with irony. His predecessor Viktor Yanukovich received asylum in Russia after the February 2014 coup in Kiev that ultimately led to Poroshenko’s election. https://www.rt.com/russia/548602-poroshenko-putin-asylum-offer/
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