Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko says Canada should accelerate any plans to send military aid to his country, expressing hope for a peaceful solution even as Russian troops remain amassed at the border.
“We have a full, open and huge Russian aggression,” Poroshenko said in an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.
“The expanding of the scale of this war, we can avoid that. We can use [diplomacy],” he told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.
Tensions in Ukraine have been running high for months, with an estimated 100,000 Russian troops near the shared border. Russia recently presented a list of demands
