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Ivano-Frankivsk - Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko has supported the Ukrainian Armed Forces' operation to retake control of the town of Sloviansk in the country's east.

 “I very much hope that our blockade of Sloviansk will be effective. Finally, the state has started to use the language of force with the terrorists,” he said at a press conference in Ivano-Frankivsk on Friday.

“These are the steps that entire Ukraine has been waiting for,” he said.