Ukraine isn't ruling out a full-scale war with Russia and may institute a military draft if the situation with its neighbor worsens, President Petro Poroshenko said, after three soldiers were killed in the worst spate of shelling by pro-Russian separatists in a year.
The confrontation between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region has worsened, Poroshenko said in the western city of Brody on August 18. His comments come a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the government in Kyiv of engaging in “terror” tactics in Crimea, which Ukraine’s neighbor annexed in 2014, and vowed to retaliate with “serious measures.”
