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Russian aggression in the Donbass led to the death of more than ten thousand Ukrainians. This was stated by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the press service of the head of state reports .

"The total number of victims of the war is striking, it reached ten thousand. Russia took not only 2558 of our military from the Armed Forces and other law enforcement agencies that protect the country, but also seven and a half thousand civilians of Ukraine. This mortal sin is on the souls of the Higher Military -Political Leaders of the Russian Federation, which seeks to restore the empire and despises the life and fate of people," Poroshenko said at the ceremony of the presentation of the State On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Participants in the solemn meeting honored the memory of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who died in the war against Ukraine against Ukraine.

Poroshenko called the main task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for 2017 an increase in combat effectiveness and ensuring the readiness of troops to fulfill the tasks of protecting the country. “In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine there are about 700 Russian tanks, 1,200 Russian military armored vehicles, more than a thousand Russian artillery systems and more than 300 elaboration systems,” the president said . “On the one hand, such a presence indicates that they are afraid of us. On the other hand, this indicates that not only all this can go to us, but also that the fact that they can do it, but that the fact is that that Concentrated and hung over us on the other side of the Ukrainian-Russian border. "

On October 24, Poroshenko said that alternatives to Minsk agreements were a military decision of the conflict and an open attack on Russia. “I ask you to compare the military budgets and opportunities, I ask you to take responsibility for future victims,” the president said in an interview with Ukrainian television channels.

“Those political forces against Minsk are aimed at abandoning these (occupied. - Ed.) Territories, build a border there and profess the logic of the territory in exchange for peace. I want to disappoint that these political forces and their supporters, who are against Minsk, will receive neither peace nor territories. Therefore, these statements are absolutely irresponsible,” Poroshenko said.

In the case of Ukraine’s exit from the Minsk agreements in relation to Russia, sanctions will cease to operate, Poroshenko believes. "If Ukraine itself comes out of the Minsk agreements, forget about sanctions, if Ukraine itself takes on the status of the violator of the Minsk agreements, forget about the coalition," the Ukrainian president added.

Poroshenko also confirmed that during the meeting of the Norman Four in Berlin, he called on Vladimir Putin to stop shooting in the Donbass. “During the negotiations, I never raise my voice, but I asked to stop shooting. Indeed, I turned to Putin with such a request,” Poroshenko said.