Sanctions against Russia must remain, Says Ukraine president

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left,   talks to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Poroshenko said Tuesday that he and President Vladimir Putin agreed in a telephone call on Monday on a formula that will allow Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to be returned. Poroshenko would not elaborate what that is. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

    AP, Bucharest

    Ukraine’s president says sanctions against Russia must stay in place as long as hostilities in eastern Ukraine still continue.
    President Petro Poroshenko said he and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis agreed that “discussions related to cancelling sanctions imposed on Russia cannot take place until the aggression stops.” Security was the main focus of talks during Poroshenko’s one-day visit Thursday to neighboring Romania.

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