BRUSSELS - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that Kyiv may ask for a special status of a non-NATO ally from the U.S. Congress, if everything else fails.
“If sanctions will help that, we should introduce new sanctions [against Russia]. If it’s not working, we should maybe ask the United States Congress to present us the status, which Israel, Japan, South Korea, Philippines or other U.S. partners have received, as a major non-NATO ally to help us to solve the security problem,” Poroshenko said in an interview with CNN on July 21.
He also compared the downing of the Malaysian passenger jet in Donetsk region with the 9/11 tragedy in New York and with the crash of the Pan Am airliner which was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
The current situation is a threat for the whole world, the Ukrainian president said.
