Petro Poroshenko – praag.org

Ukranian leader asks Washington for ‘lethal aid’

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on the US Congress on Thursday to give Ukraine a special security status reflecting the highest level of NATO ties with a non-member.

“We need more military equipment,” Poroshenko said addressing the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He added that Ukraine needed “lethal aid” too.

He also urged the US to be forceful in imposing new sanctions against Russia.

The Ukranian junta leader is expected to meet with US President Barack Obama during his visit. He addressed a joint session of Congress on Thursday.

Poroshenko beamed as the interventionist and neo-conservative elements of the U.S. Congress, the Obama administration, and the media stood to his attention.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Defense Minister Valerey Heletey meanwhile announced that NATO countries are delivering weapons to Ukraine for use against the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine.

A shaky cease fire, negotiated in Minsk, thus struggles to survive as the Scientologist Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s vitriol against Russia continues.

And while Poroshenko is hyped as a savior of Ukraine in Washington, the chocolate king is facing mounting criticism and dissent back home.

Poroshenko can expect a similarly warm welcome in Ottawa, where he will address a joint session of the Russophobe Cabinet ministers, before he is voted out of office in Kiev.

The leader of the war-torn nation will ultimately discover that aspiring NATO leaders have little influence over Washington’s military-industrial complex. He is hailed in the same manner as a low-level colonial governor from a ratty corner of the British Empire had been and niceties will promptly be forgotten after he signs on as a client state.

People like Poroshenko are treated to diplomatic pomp, including expensive shopping trips, to commit his nation to draconian dictates from NATO, the Pentagon, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, as well as from the hated Eurocrats. They matter not as leaders with visions.

Europe is being pressured to increase their defense spending to supply fodder for the War Machine. The chocolate king could barely hide his glee as the prospect.

Kiev, militia agree on ceasefire

Kiev officials and representatives of the two self-proclaimed republics in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group met behind closed doors in Belarus.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed the ceasefire agreement on his Twitter account.

The truce agreement comes into force starting 6 pm local time (15:00 GMT).

The president has ordered to cease fire starting at the time stated in the protocol.

“I give the order to the chief of the General staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cease fire, starting from 18.00 [local time] on September 5,” Poroshenko’s statement says.

Poroshenko then called on both the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the OSCE to provide international monitoring of compliance with the bilateral ceasefire.

“We must do everything possible and impossible to stop bloodshed and put an end to people’s suffering,” the president said in a statement posted on his official website.

Poroshenko expressed hope that both sides would comply with the ceasefire agreement.

The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic earlier confirmed the ceasefire agreement on its official Twitter account.

Both Donetsk and Lugansk have said they are ready to lay down arms starting from 15:00GMT.

Representatives of the rebel forces have said they will obey the ceasefire if Kiev follows suit.

“Most of the points of the protocol correspond with our demands,” Lugansk’s leader Igor Plotnitsky said.

“However, the ceasefire does not mean a shift from our course of breaking away from Ukraine. This is a compulsory measure,” he said.

The OSCE’s Heidi Tagliavini has welcomed the agreement saying “it is good news.”

She has revealed that the protocol consists of 12 points, and “the ceasefire is the chief one.”

The participants in the talks will prepare another document – a memorandum on settling the situation in Ukraine, a Donetsk representative said.

The two sides accompanied by representatives of Russia and the OSCE were meeting in the Belorussian capital, Minsk, in an attempt to end the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.

In their recent phone call on September 3, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, showed a willingness to find an agreement to resolve the months-long conflict in the southeastern Ukraine.

Following the conversation with his counterpart, President Putin laid out a seven-point plan that could help find a solution.

Source: RT

Soros meets with the President of Ukraine

Multibillion dollar loans don’t come without a few strings attached.

President Petro Poroshenko held a meeting with billionaire crony opportunist George Soros, at which Soros informed the head of state about his initiative to create a “strategic plan of reforms” for Ukraine.

“We set up a strategic consultative group for immediate reactions to challenges as they arise,” the press service of the Ukrainian president reported on Monday, citing Soros.