Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko believes his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin wants to return to Ukraine to the “Russian Empire,” he told CNN in an interview on Wednesday.
Poroshenko, who was due to meet Putin along with the leaders of France and Germany next month, before Putin decided he did not want to, spoke on the 25th anniversary since Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
He said it was the “direct responsibility” of Moscow that Ukraine’s east was experiencing a sharp uptick of violence, which has killed 13 Ukrainian soldiers in recent weeks.
Poroshenko was elected president in 2014, …read more
Source: Newsweek
