“It sounds like one-sided playing up Poroshenko’s militaristic slogans to exacerbate the situation on the eve of the second round in the hope that it will help raise the pseudo-patriotic spirit of the Ukrainian voter,” he explained.
Earlier, the United States Permanent Representative to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, said that the North Atlantic Alliance intends to ensure the security of the passage of Ukrainian ships through the Kerch Strait.
A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, commented on the initiative.