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Poroshenko says tried to talk to Putin after detention of Ukrainian naval vessels

Published Nov. 27, 2018. Updated Nov. 28 at 9:31 pm

This handout picture taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential press service shows President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko (C) leading a session of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine in Kyiv early on Nov. 26, 2018, following an incident in the Black Sea off Moscow-annexed Crimea.

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that after capturing vessels of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Navy near the Kerch Strait, he tried to hold a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Kyiv did not receive a response from Moscow to this request.

“I requested a conversation with Russian President Putin at night, but we didn’t receive an answer,” Poroshenko told in an interview with Ukrainian TV channels on Nov. 27 evening.