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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (left) and US special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker in Kiev, Ukraine
UKRAINIAN Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko’s warnings about the dangers of armed conflict with Russia being provoked by President Petro Poroshenko should be taken seriously.
It may appear ludicrous to contemplate the prospect of Europe’s poorest country being at war with a major world power, but Poroshenko is backed by adventurist elements within Nato.
The “former” oligarch, who made an election campaign promise in 2014 to divest himself of the chocolate giant Roshen if elected president — but retains ownership and has extended his asset holdings — has presided over mass impoverishment and rampant corruption.
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
