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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko approved the decision of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council on the termination of cargo transportation with Donbass areas not controlled by Kiev, according to a decree published Thursday.As Alexander Mercouris of the Duran notes both these moves are counter-productive; closing and sanctioning banks for ideological reasons while the economy is suffering is ridiculous, and imposing a blockade on Donbass will only quicken their pivot towards Russia.
"Implement the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of March 15, 2017 'On urgent additional measures to counter hybrid threats to Ukraine's national security'," the document said.
In that case then that would suggest that Poroshenko's authority as Ukraine's President is seeping away, and that he is no longer fully in control, just as the Russian military move on Pristina in June 1999 during the Kosovo conflict, made without any order from Boris Yeltsin, was a clear sign that his authority as Russia's President was seeping away.
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