Putin wants to make all of Ukraine a colony, says president Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex his entire country and called for Nato to deploy warships to a sea shared by the two nations. Poroshenko’s comments to German media on Thursday were part of a concerted push by Kiev aimed at gaining western support for more sanctions against Moscow, securing tangible western military help, and rallying opposition to a Russian gas pipeline that threatens to deprive Ukraine of important transit revenue. His western allies have so far not offered to give him any of these things soon, despite his warnings of a possible invasion by Russia after Moscow seized three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews on Sunday. Moscow and Kiev blame each other for the Black Sea incident, which took place off Russian-annexed Crimea. “Don’t believe Putin’s lies,” Poroshenko told Bild, Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper, comparing Russia’s protestations of innocence in the affair to Moscow’s 2014 denial that it ha...
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