Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on April 4 refused to back down over Kyiv’s decision to ban Russia’s entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, despite a threat from the organisers to throw Ukraine out of future competitions, though not the one due in May.
Relations between Ukraine and Russia have been toxic since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the outbreak of separatist violence in the Donbass region.
