 During a visit to Gomel, Belarus in October 2018, he spoke to the Ukrainian community on the situation in Ukraine, saying that he does "not want Russia to use Belarus to get to our flank".In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Poroshenko is placed first on the party list of European Solidarity.On 20 December 2019 the law enforcers raided both Poroshenko’s party headquarters and gym.