Call for Nato warships to protect Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin yesterday of wanting to annex his entire country and called for Nato to send warships to a sea shared by the two nations. Mr Poroshenko’s comments were part of a push by Kiev to gain western support for more sanctions against Moscow. His western allies have so far not offered to provide ships or more sanctions, despite his warnings of a possible Russian invasion after Moscow seized three Ukrainian naval ships on Sunday near Crimea. Moscow and Kiev blame each other for the incident in the narrow Kerch Strait off Crimea, the Ukrainian region Moscow annexed in 2014.