Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko listens during a news conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on January 23, 2017. Photo: Reuters
BERLIN: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko plans a referendum on whether Ukraine should join the NATO alliance given polls that show 54 percent of Ukrainians now favour such a move, Germany’s Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain reported Thursday.
Ukraine and NATO accuse Russia of providing troops and weapons to support separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine in a conflict that seen 10,000 people killed since April 2014. Moscow denies the charges.
“Four years ago, only 16 percent (of the Ukrainian people) favoured Ukraine‘s entry into NATO. …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
