Poroshenko in Australia offered Putin to exchange border closure for a cessation of shelling
Moscow - Kyiv, December 11 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko demanded that Moscow close the Russian-Ukrainian border, because he believes that it will lead to the establishment in the east of the country. He said this in Melbourne at a joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. “Please cease fire. Please release the hostages. Please withdraw your troops from my territory,” his appeal quotes him as saying. "Vedomosti". “Please close the border. And I promise that if you close the border, then within one, two, three weeks peace and stability will reign in Ukraine. Everything is very simple,” Poroshenko said.
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Kyiv has been insisting on closing the border and establishing control over it since the spring, the newspaper writes. On October 9, US Representative to the OSCE Daniel Baer said that the organization's observers have access to only one kilometer of the border. According to him, they have access to the Gukovo and Donetsk checkpoints from the Russian side of the border. According to Baer, the Ukrainian side at that time did not control about 300 km of the border with Russia.
The Ukrainian president clarified that his country “is waging a war not only for its independence, not only for territorial integrity. We are fighting a war for freedom, democracy and peace." Poroshenko is confident that “the entire civilized world, the European Union, Australia, Canada, the USA, Japan - the whole world stands together with Ukraine.” He also called on Russia to comply with the terms of the Minsk agreement of September 5.
Abbott confirmed Australia's solidarity with Ukraine, the publication reports.
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