Ukraine’s President Poroshenko has been mocked for “forgetting Ukrainian” by Russian media after struggling to recall the word for “wallet” during a press conference.
While Ukrainian is the only official language in Ukraine, Russian is widely spoken in some regions, most notably the war-torn Donetsk and Luhansk, parts of which have been seized by pro-Russian separatists and Crimea in the south, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The fate of these regions was the focus of Poroshenko’s conference as he vowed to “ensure the renewal of Ukraine’s sovereignty over the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk” in 2016. He also claimed …read more
Source: Newsweek
