MOSCOW: Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has urged US President Donald Trump to act to stop the war in eastern Ukraine that he blamed on “irresponsible actions” by Kiev and the West.
In the letter, which was made public on Wednesday, Yanukovych urges the US leader to “take urgent and exhaustive measures to stop the war.”
“I wrote to President Trump and told him the war needs to end,” he told reporters in Moscow ahead of the letter’s release.
The pro-Moscow president, who now lives in Russia, blames the conflict on “short-sighted and irresponsible actions by the Ukrainian and Western politicians.”
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Source: theSun
