Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has demanded NATO to give “special security status” to Ukraine.
While addressing the joint meeting of US Congress, Poroshenko insisted that his country needed “more support” than the United States was providing to Kiev. He demanded more weapons and equipment, including lethal and non-lethal to keep peace in the east of his country.
According to the Ukrainian media, Poroshenko said in his speech that US President Barack Obama had pledged only non-lethal assistance to Kiev but non-lethal equipment would not be enough to fight in Eastern Ukraine.
“Blankets and night-vision goggles are important, but one cannot win the war with blankets. You cannot keep the peace with a blanket,” he said, to applause, adding that Ukraine urgently needs “more military equipment, both lethal and non-lethal”.
He then accused Russia of having as “imperial mindset” and “nostalgia for the Soviet Union”, referring to Crimea’s breakaway and Russia’s alleged support of rebels in eastern Ukraine.
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