Live from kyiv, former Russian President Petro Poroshenko speaks after the surrender of 959 Ukrainian soldiers, entrenched since February 24 in the basements of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
If he salutes these “Ukrainian and European” heroes, he insists that his experience in power has taught him that it is not possible to place his trust in Vladimir Putin.
He added that he hoped that kyiv had negotiated guarantees so that these soldiers would not be tried or imprisoned in Russia.
He recalled that during his tenure as president, several Ukrainians held in Russia had not been released, despite promises from the Kremlin.
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