Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has launched his campaign for re-election in March’s vote, which promises to be a bitter contest between him and a former prime minister.
Addressing supporters in the capital Kiev, Poroshenko laid out his hopes that Ukraine pushes on with efforts to join the European Union and NATO if he were to win another five-year term in office.
“We have to safeguard [Ukraine’s] integration with the European Union and NATO,” he said. “We must not stop half-way there.”
Poroshenko’s main rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, entered the race last week, promising to regain control of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula …read more
Source: Voice of America
