Ex-president barred from leaving Ukraine amid alleged plan to meet Hungarian PM

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (Piotr Molecki/AP)

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko was denied permission to leave Ukraine for a planned meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Ukraine’s security service has said.

Mr Poroshenko announced on Friday that he had been turned away at the border despite previously receiving permission from parliament to leave the country.