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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has said that Ukraine needs military assistance from other countries, including Germany.

“We are open to this possibility, and we support it because there is a threat to the security situation in Europe. We should all provide greater support to each other to be ready for anything,” he said in an interview with the German newspaper Bild published on Feb. 3.

Poroshenko said that Russia’s aim is to divide Europe and that they should not let it do this. “Europe should not become a victim to blackmail by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin who says that without him it is impossible to settle the Syrian issue. Everything that happens in the world is directly or indirectly related to the Russian aggression,” he stressed.

According to the Ukrainian president, Putin “does not recognize any red lines and will be able to annex other countries justifying themselves by claims of discrimination of Russian minorities. “Germany also has a Russian minority…” Poroshenko said.