Ukrainian president pins hopes on UN talks

While Syria is the key talking point at this year’s gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York, efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine continue.

On Monday, a Ukrainian delegation left the UN General Assembly during the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who stressed that the full implementation of the February 2015 Minsk ceasefire agreements is the only way to resolve the Ukraine gridlock.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called out the United Nations for facilitating Russian obstructionism on the Security Council, imploring the worldwide body to assist his country in combating what he described as “treacherous Russian aggression”.

“People can not say exactly the same things to the last comma, they aren’t robots”, said defence lawyer Nikolai Polozov, comparing the case to Stalin-era show trials.

“I wasn’t able to go out anywhere for a week: I was guarded by masked men”, said Savchenko, who was dressed in a traditional Ukrainian embroidered blouse.

In coordination with its G-7 partners, Japan has imposed economic sanctions on Russian Federation following its annexation of Crimea in southern Ukraine in March a year ago.

“How can you urge an anti-terrorist coalition if you inspire terrorism right in front of your door?”

Rumors have also swirled about animosity between Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, with a petition on the presidential website calling for former Georgian president and current governor of the Ukrainian region of Odessa, Mikheil Saakashvili, to become the country’s prime minister gathering thousand of signatures.

She denied the charges and said she had been taken from Ukraine into Russian Federation “against my will”.

The global community has failed to provide proof that the Kremlin is funding the separatists, but Poroshenko says this is because Russian soldiers take off military identification and use “mobile crematoriums” to get rid of bodies.

“How can you speak of freedom for nations if you punish your neighbor for his choice?” “We are the only country in Europe that is not afraid of Russian Federation“.

A Ukrainian soldier fires an anti-aircraft gun toward positions of Russia-backed rebels near Avdiivka, outside Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, August 22, 2015.

“Abuse of the veto right as a license to kill is absolutely unacceptable”, Poroshenko asserted.

The Ukrainian government is particularly sceptical about Russian intentions, and worries about any signs of a warming relationship between Russia and the West which could ease pressure on Moscow.