Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talks with NBC News.NBC News
NBC: In interview, Ukrainian president asks Trump to deliver pointed message to Putin
Petro Poroshenko warned Russia would "pay a huge price" if they invaded Ukraine.
The president of Ukraine has a message that he wants President Donald Trump to personally deliver to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Argentina:
"Please, get out from Ukraine, Mr. Putin," Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday.
Poroshenko made the comments in a one-on-one interview with NBC News' Richard Engel, which was conducted two days after Russian forces created an international crisis by attacking and seizing three Ukrainian vessels that were trying to pass through the Kerch Strait, a narrow artery that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov.
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WNU Editor: The U.S. is already providing an enormous amount of help to Ukraine. But to get directly involved in the conflict in eastern Ukraine by issuing threats/warnings .... my advice to President Trump is that this is a conflict that is not in the long term strategic interests of the United States.
