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President Petro Poroshenko has called the ongoing conflict between Russia-backed separatists and Ukraine’s armed forces in the country’s east “not frozen, but a battlefield.”

In a press conference in Kyiv on February 28, Poroshenko said “the key challenge for Ukraine in 2018 remains the ongoing war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”

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