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Ukraine: Kiev shredded friendship treaty with Russia

According to president Poroshenko, it is 'anachronistic'

17 September, 14:42
(ANSA) - MOSCOW, SEPT. 17 - Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko signed a decree ending the Treaty of Friendship with Russia, an agreement made in 1997 which came into force in 1999, the website of the Ukrainian presidency reported. On August 28 Poroshenko had ordered the Foreign Ministry to have all the relevant documents ready, so as to shred the treaty, calling it ''anachronistic''.(ANSA).

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