Ukraine 🇺🇦 panic Russia 🇷🇺 will use exercises next week to invade

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he fears that Russia could use massive military manoeuvres next week as a cover for invasion.

In a major speech, Poroshenko said Russia's Zapad-2017 exercises with Belarus might be "a smokescreen to create new Russian army assault groups to invade Ukrainian territory".

"There are no signs that Moscow is ready to pull out of Donbas or Crimea," Poroshenko said in his state-of-the-nation address.

"Seven thousand flatcars with troops and hardware have approached the territory of Ukraine, and unfortunately there are no guarantees that after the drill is over they will all return home from Belarus," Mr Poroshenko said.

Turning to the shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, he rejected Putin's call for a peacekeeping mission to be deployed along the line of contact, between the Ukrainian army and the separatists.

UCJ, UNILORIN.