Poroshenko: Kyiv Must Hold Donetsk Airport -- Voice of America
Ukraine's president said Friday that the country's armed forces must not lose control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk.
President Petro Poroshenko presented awards to a group of "cyborgs," the name given to the soldiers and members of volunteer battalions who have fought at the Donetsk airport, the site of repeated clashes with Russia-backed separatists.
"I am sure that we are protecting all of Ukraine there," Poroshenko's website quoted him as saying during the meeting in Kyiv. He added he was sure that if the Donetsk airport was given up, "the enemy" would make to Kyiv and beyond, reaching as far as the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
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