Poroshenko compared Russia's sanctions against him with a "quality mark"

“Russia has imposed personal sanctions against me as the fifth president of Ukraine.

I think it's like a state award.

It's like a quality mark, "Poroshenko wrote on Facebook.

On September 4, it was reported that the Russian government introduced personal sanctions against a number of Ukrainian citizens, including against the former president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.

Restrictive economic measures have also been introduced against 40 more individuals, including Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, a member of the political council of the Ukrainian Golos party, Irina Lutsenko, former representative of Poroshenko in the Verkhovna Rada, and Valentin Nalyvaichenko, a people's deputy from the Batkivshchyna faction.