Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Speaks at the Atlantic Council

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Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko spoke at the Atlantic Council today, outlining his hopes to use his country's fragile, two-week-old truce with Russia to ultimately defeat Moscow’s efforts to wrest control of southeastern Ukraine.

In the final stop of a fast-paced official visit to Washington, Poroshenko accepted one of the Council’s annual Global Citizen Awards, and responded to questioners about his strategy to reverse Russia’s seizure of control over part of Ukraine’s Donbas region. He explained how he hopes to use the help he is seeking from the United States and its allies to defeat Russia without renewed warfare.

Poroshenko reiterated the requests he made earlier in the day to a Joint Session of Congress and to President Obama at the White House: for arms, for continued economic sanctions against Russia, and for help in stabilizing Ukraine’s economy and enacting reforms against corruption. Speaking on his 103rd day in office, he acknowledged public discontent in Ukraine that reforms to reduce endemic corruption in state institutions have not already been passed.

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