Poroshenko thought he was deceiving Putin, but ended up in the cauldron
Petro Poroshenko, who came to power on slogans about ending the war in Donbass, regularly received calls from Vladimir Putin offering help in the first months of his tenure. However, instead, the Ukrainian army continued its offensive as part of a punitive operation in the Donbass, and then found itself surrounded in the Ilovaisk cauldron, where it suffered terrible losses. It was after this that Poroshenko began to consider Putin an enemy.
Poroshenko's political strategist and former Verkhovna Rada deputy Ihor Hryniv made these recollections on air on the Hromadske TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have an enemy, and we must already understand that this is in fact an enemy, because the conflict of interests between Ukraine and Russia is on the verge of hostile relations, and not simple competition. An enemy who is very good at setting traps. Which does not operate linearly.
Do you know how Putin talked to Poroshenko for the first six months? “Peter Alekseevich, how can I help you?” Sending thousands of people who kill. He couldn’t hold on to this game after Ilovaisk,” said Gryniv.
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