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The president-elect of Ukraine, Petro O. Poroshenko, vowed on May 26 to restore order in the country’s east, which is besieged by pro-Russian separatist violence, but said he would not negotiate with armed rebels and instead would demand swifter results from a military campaign that has achieved only limited success.

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