New Ukraine Leader Promises End to Fighting This Week
Ukraine's new Western-backed president, Petro Poroshenko, vowed Sunday 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.
Ukraine’s new Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko vowed Sunday 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…
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