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Ukraine, Poland Want Continued Sanctions on Russia

Associated Press

   WARSAW - Ukrainian President VolodymyrZelenskiysaid Saturdaythathe and
   Poland's president hadagreed that sanctions ought to continue against
   Russia until Ukraine regainedthe territory it lost in Moscow's 2014
   annexation of Crimea.
   Zelenskiy, accompanied by some members of his Cabinet, was on his first
   visit to Poland as president for political talks and to attend
   ceremonies planned for Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the start
   of World War II.
   He said he and Polish President Andrzej Duda had discussed the next
   steps needed to end the war in eastern Ukraine and to return the
   Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine.
   ``We have agreed on our next steps to stop the war in eastern Ukraine
   and to bring back occupied Crimea,'' Zelenskiy said.

   Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 in a move that Ukraine and almost all the
   world views as illegal. The European Union and the U.S. imposed
   sanctions.
   In eastern Ukraine, a deadly conflict between government forces and
   Russia-backed separatists has gone on for five years.

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