Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was set to meet with top European Union leaders to press them to keep up sanctions against Russia.
Poroshenko’s November 24 meeting with Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker comes amid worries in Kyiv that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will weaken Western resolve against Russia upon taking office in January.
The EU is set at its next summit next month to discuss a six-month renewal of sanctions that were imposed after a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down over Ukraine in 2014.
But Trump has signaled a more conciliatory approach to the Kremlin, and even suggested he might …read more
