Sanctions keep Russia at negotiating table – Poroshenko

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"The sanctions are working, they help to keep Russia at the negotiating table," he said.

According to Poroshenko, it would be impossible without sanctions.

Read alsoPoroshenko sees anti-Russia sanctions as tool to restore peace to UkraineAs UNIAN reported earlier, on November 26, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the decision by the European Union to introduce sanctions against the Russian Federation as an aggressor, as the country that had annexed Crimea, for the non-implementation of the Minsk agreements, was a key instrument to bring peace and stability in the Ukrainian land.