Poroshenko: Kyiv Must Hold Donetsk Airport -- Voice of America
Ukraine's president said Friday that the country's armed forces must not lose control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk.
President Petro Poroshenko presented awards to a group of "cyborgs," the name given to the soldiers and members of volunteer battalions who have fought at the Donetsk airport, the site of repeated clashes with Russia-backed separatists.
"I am sure that we are protecting all of Ukraine there," Poroshenko's website quoted him as saying during the meeting in Kyiv. He added he was sure that if the Donetsk airport was given up, "the enemy" would make to Kyiv and beyond, reaching as far as the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
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3 comments:
Porshenko is an idiot. You don't go calling places out, apt after last night's Stalingrad doc's.
Now the Ukraine Military, can't retreat from, can't be driven out of, and the Ukraine Government can't trade the Airport, with out it being a political defeat, much greater than it's actual value.
Jay .... the feedback that I am now getting back from my Ukrainian friends/family/associates/etc. is this .... it is starting to dawn on them that Poroshenko does not know what he is doing. He makes commitments and then he breaks them. He says one thing one day .... retracts it or clarifies it the next. Even his European allies are now starting to distance themselves away from him .... they no longer trust his word. And on the front .... Ukrainian soldiers are feeling abandoned .... and I agree with them .... they have been abandoned to a fate that has no end game.
This is a conflict that has reached a stage where a political solution can be found .... and everyone wants it .... the Russians, the rebels in the east, the Ukrainian people, and even European public opinion .... but the ones who want this mess to continue are .... predictably .... Ukrainian nationalists, the U.S., and Ukrainian President Poroshenko.
Well, they are the ones who started it, so it's no surprise they want to push to the bitter end, one way or another.
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