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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said there are reasons to believe that Russia needs not only Crimea, but all of Ukraine, as weak and destabilized as it is now.

“I want to stress one more time: the aggressor didn’t need Crimea – the aggressor owns 1/6 of land on the planet and, forgive me my frankness, very often can’t cope with it. Today we have all reasons to believe that aggressor needs all Ukraine: weak, destabilized, with its discredited European values and discredited people, but which found forces to rise up to European Maidan,” Poroshenko said while opening the eighth Kyiv Security Forum on May 28.