Ukraine pledged to cut all ties with Russia and to seek swifter integration with the EU and Nato on August 24, as a top US official joined Kyiv’s leaders for an independence day military parade that involved troops from western armies.
“During four years of war that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine, we have preserved and strengthened the state,” Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko said on the 27th anniversary of his country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
