Member of Parliament from the European Solidarity faction Viktoria Siumar believes that the basis for the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine's sanctions decision against Ukraine's fifth president (2014–2019), MP and European Solidarity leader Petro Poroshenko, was originally introduced in 2019 by former Ukrainian politician and lawyer Andriy Portnov, who was killed in Spain on May 21. This was reported on the political party's official website.