Poroshenko: By defending Ukraine, we are defending Europe and Bulgaria

"Putin hates Europe. He hates our Western world. He hates our values ​​and unfortunately we will never compromise with him because he wants us dead and we want to live. It's that simple. By defending Ukraine now, we are defending Europe and Bulgaria." This was stated in an exclusive interview with the Bulgarian Nova TV by Petro Poroshenko - the fifth president of Ukraine, ruled in the period 2014-2019.

Currently, Poroshenko, an internationally recognized businessman called the "Chocolate King" and one of the wealthiest Ukrainians, is helping to organize the defense of Kyiv.

"My motivation to do this is the same as all Ukrainians. Thank you very much for your kind words, but now the whole world admires the Ukrainian people, who surprised everyone by stopping Putin, and who surprised Putin, who underestimated the capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces created by me in 2014. He underestimated the unity of the Ukrainian people and the whole world who support Ukraine for victory over Russian aggression. I am doing my best, and now, as citizens of Ukraine, we have organized territorial defense battalions in the most difficult days of the Russian attack on Kyiv. The distance from the battalion in which I participated to the Russian troops was 8 km. All of Kyiv was under rocket and artillery fire, but we did not leave Kyiv for all 48 days. We withstood one of the heaviest attacks of the Russians. We were one of the first to go to Bucha, Irpen, Gostomel, Vorzel, the main places that have now become world famous because of the horrific massacre that Russian criminals organized against Ukrainian civilians," Poroshenko said.

According to him, a total of more than 2,000 people were killed in four suburbs of Kyiv.

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