Ukraine’s first president, who help usher in the peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union 25 years ago, said Ukraine’s leaders today must find a similarly peaceful resolution of the separatist conflict in the east.
“We heeded our peoples then and signed the [dissolution] accords, and so why can’t the country leaders today tap a solution consonant with the aspirations of their nations, which don’t want a war?” Leonid Kravchuk said at an Atlantic Council event in Washington on November 18.
While Kravchuk said the West must keep up economic pressure on Russia by maintaining sanctions until it agrees to stop its aggression …read more
Source: Voice of America
