Poroshenko Defies Russia With Vow on Anti-Rebel Operation
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President-elect Petro Poroshenko set Ukraine on a collision course with Russia even before the last vote had been counted, vowing to step up operations to rein in separatists in the east of the country.
“There will be a sharp increase in the efficiency of anti-terrorist operations,” Poroshenko said in Kiev today. “They won’t last two or three months; they’ll last a few hours.” In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that any escalation would be a “colossal mistake.”