KIEV: Ukraine’s new Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko vowed on Sunday (Monday in Manila) to halt by the end of the week nearly two months of bloodshed in the separatist east that have threatened the very survival of the ex-Soviet state.
But his pledge was immediately dismissed as political grandstanding by insurgents who have proclaimed independence in two vital industrial regions that are now seeking a formal invitation to join Russia.
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