Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told CNN about Russia’s military presence in occupied areas in eastern Ukraine and disclosed how many pieces of military hardware it has brought there.
“[I’ll] give you the figures: currently, in the occupied territory in the east of my country, we have more than 700 Russian tanks, more than 1,250 artillery systems, more than 1,000 armed personnel carriers, more than 300 multi-rocket launch systems,” he told CNN in an interview.
