Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to destroy Ukraine as an independent country and said only NATO could defend the ex-Soviet republic from external aggression.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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A tank of pro-Russian militants rides near a checkpoint controlled by Ukrainian forces on Sep. 10, 2014, near the small eastern Ukrainian city of Slavyanoserbsk, in the Lugansk Oblast.
