Russia thought that in the event of a conflict with Ukraine, the West's reaction would be the same as in 2008 during clashes with Georgia, but Vladimir Putin was wrong.
Petro Poroshenko stated this during a meeting with the teaching staff and student activists of Dnepropetrovsk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Putin got used to it after Transnistria and Ossetia, after Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh, after 2008 in Georgia, that everything will pass. I have been president for four and a half years. On December 13th I returned from Europe. The EU Council decided to continue the sanctions now for a period of five years,” Poroshenko said.
“That is, four and a half before that, and this is an adequate response to aggression, based on European values and compliance with international law,” the Ukrainian president added.