Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday he wanted EU and US help in securing Crimea's return from Russian control and vowed to regain sovereignty over the separatist east in 2016.
Poroshenko said Kiev intended to launch an "international process ... that includes the European Union, the United States and possibly the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum" that could unlock Russia's stranglehold on the strategic Black Sea peninsula in seized in 2014.
"In 2016, we must also ensure the renewal of Ukraine's sovereignty over the (eastern) occupied territories of Lugansk and Donetsk," the pro-Western leader told a televised press conference

Source: NNA