Poroshenko: We are on a brink of total war with Russia

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that Ukraine is under the threat of war with Russia after the Kerch Straits incident.

“I don’t want anyone to think that these are games”, the presidential press office quoted the Ukrainian president as saying during an interview with Ukrainian television.

The country is under threat of a “total war” with the Russian Federation.

The Ukrainian leader showed survey data and satellite images to television channels.

According to Poroshenko, the pictures reveal the Russian military base, located 18 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, and the pictures were taken on 14 and 17 September.

“As you can see, the number of tanks in the bases along our borders has tripled”, Poroshenko said.

Why were they transferred there?

The number of units redeployed along our borders has significantly increased”.

The Ukrainian leader also noted that after the incident of the Kerch Strait “these tanks have not been withdrawn yet, and we had to provide the Ukrainian armed forces with resistance in the event of a large-scale ground invasion”.

Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council supported President Petro Poroshenko’s proposal to impose martial law in the country after the Kerch Straits incident.

This comes after the capture of three Ukrainian navy vessels, the Berdiansk and Nikopol boats and the Yani Kapu, in the Kerch Strait region on Sunday.

Russian security confirmed that the three Ukrainian vessels entered the Russian territorial waters off the Crimean Peninsula, where they began a dangerous maneuver instead of responding to the demands of the Russian side to stop movement.

After “Russian forces exhausted all necessary measures to prevent violation of Russian legislation and laws by Ukrainian ships in the exclusive Russian economic zone and the Russian continental shelf, these ships were detained.