Former Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko has called President of Russia, Vladimir Putin a mad man.

He stated this while promising that Russia will never capture Ukraine.

The ex-President, who was equipped and surrounded by defence forces– spoke to CNN on Friday from the streets of Kyiv.

According to him, individuals of Ukraine are prepared to defend their nation.

“Everybody needs to comprehend, [Russian President] Putin declared war, not for Ukraine. Putin stated a war on the entire world,” he stated.

He called the Russian president “merely mad.”

“He’s just simply insane,” he said, including that it is just simply evil for the Russian leader to “come here to eliminate Ukrainian [s]”

While likewise thanking the U.S and U.K for offering Ukraine with defence weapons, the ex-President promised that “No matter the number of soldiers he eliminates, the number of missiles he has, the number of nuclear weapons he has, we Ukrainian [s] are totally free people with an excellent European future.”

He required more assistance from world powers, saying that his country needs support, which might can be found in type of sanctioning Russia, kicking them out of SWIFT, and obstructing their airplanes and ships in European and NATO ports.

He further confirmed to CNN that the battalion is about 2 to 3 kilometres (about 1.5 miles) from the fighting between Russia and his country’s soldiers.

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