Former president emphasizes: ‘Don’t allow Putin to destabilize us’
OTTAWA – Ukraine will regain Crimea, which is temporarily lost to Russia, but needs global support in its fight against Russian aggression in the Donbas, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told a recent international conference on foreign affairs and defense held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
“When Ukraine protect[ed its] territorial integrity and our sovereignty – and voluntarily gave up the third-biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and expected global solidarity to protect our territorial integrity, nobody stopped Russia, except Ukraine,” he said about the Russian war in eastern Ukraine, in which, he angrily noted, President Vladimir Putin has denied any involvement.