| | Beginning under the Poroshenko regime, military assistance from the [[United States]], which amounted to more than 2.7 billion dollars in the period from 2014 to 2021, depended on military reforms within Ukraine. One of these reforms focused on Ukraine’s ability to integrate its logistical support with other [[NATO]] units during joint operations. In 2016, Poroshenko sought and obtained experienced military advisers from United States, [[Canada]], [[Great Britain]], [[Lithuania]] and [[Germany]], whose purpose was to modernize Ukrainian units and reach NATO standards by 2020, thus achieving a high degree of compatibility with units from other alliance countries. | | Beginning under the Poroshenko regime, military assistance from the [[United States]], which amounted to more than 2.7 billion dollars in the period from 2014 to 2021, depended on military reforms within Ukraine. One of these reforms focused on Ukraine’s ability to integrate its logistical support with other [[NATO]] units during joint operations. In 2016, Poroshenko sought and obtained experienced military advisers from United States, [[Canada]], [[Great Britain]], [[Lithuania]] and [[Germany]], whose purpose was to modernize Ukrainian units and reach NATO standards by 2020, thus achieving a high degree of compatibility with units from other alliance countries. |
| | When the [[Minsk Agreements]] where signed in early 2015 to end the [[Donbas war]] and grant autonomy to the [[Luhansk]] and [[Donetsk]] republics, Poroshenko refused reconciliation. Poroshenko said of relations between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians who were also citizens of Ukraine: | | When the [[Minsk Agreements]] where signed in early 2015 to end the [[Donbas war]] and grant autonomy to the [[Luhansk]] and [[Donetsk]] republics, Poroshenko refused reconciliation. Poroshenko said of relations between Ukrainians and ethnic Russians who were also citizens of Ukraine: |
| | {{quotebox-float|"We [Ukrainians] will have work and they [Russians] will not! We will receive pensions and they will not! With us, people, children and pensioners will get support and not with them! With us, children will visit schools and kindergartens, but their children will sit in the basement because they are unable to do anything. So, that's exactly how we're going to win the war."}} | | {{quotebox-float|"We [Ukrainians] will have work and they [Russians] will not! We will receive pensions and they will not! With us, people, children and pensioners will get support and not with them! With us, children will visit schools and kindergartens, but their children will sit in the basement because they are unable to do anything. So, that's exactly how we're going to win the war."}} |