KIEV: President Petro Poroshenko confronted a fresh crisis Monday as a deadly standoff continued between interior ministry units and armed Ukrainian ultra-nationalists in a western enclave near Hungary.
The EU-backed leader planned to convene his “military cabinet” of top generals Monday to try and diffuse tensions between two forces vital to his bid to stamp out a separatist insurgency 1,000km away in eastern Ukraine.
The Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) nationalists played a small but instrumental role in three months of pro-European protests that eventually toppled the Russian-backed leadership in February 2014.
They then formed the heart of some of the best-equipped — and …read more
Source: theSun
