He said this on the air of "Ukraine 24".

“This is Putin's demand for him to agree with Zelensky to speak.

That is, for Putin, Poroshenko is enemy number one, ”RIA Novosti quoted the diplomat as saying.

Chaly noted that he could not prove his theory, but his words were based on "the experience of working and communicating with the Russian side in many negotiations."

Earlier it became known that Poroshenko was charged with high treason.

The US Embassy in Kiev said that the United States is closely following the case of ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on high treason.