Ukrainian Leader Warns of Constant Russian Military Threat
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iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(KIEV, Ukraine) — As long as Russia supports the insurgency in his country, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claimed Sunday that a “constant military threat will hang over Ukraine.”
Poroshenko made his comments following Moscow’s controversial delivery of humanitarian aid to people affected by the fighting in eastern Ukraine. A convoy of trucks crossed over the border into Ukraine on Friday and headed back east the following day.
With Ukraine’s army stepping up its offensive against the rebels, Poroshenko said the government would pump nearly $3 billion more into the military between 2015 and 2017.
The president declared the campaign to defeat separatists trying to secede from Ukraine has been “exhausting.”
More than 2,000 people have been killed since the insurgency began last spring, with 333,000 civilians now displaced in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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