# Petro Poroshenko on what needs to happen to end the war in Ukraine | DW News

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Language: en

Published: 2023-03-07T21:12:03+00:00

Source creator: DW News

Duration: 493 seconds

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered military commanders to send reinforcements to help Ukrainian troops defending the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut. Ukrainian authorities say that only a few thousand of the original 70,000 people living in Bakhmut remain. 

The battle for the eastern city is now the longest and bloodiest of the year-long war. Russia says seizing Bakhmut would be an important step toward capturing the industrial Donbas region. Western defense officials say the city has little strategic value militarily -- but that victory there would be symbolically important to Russia.

DW spoke to Petro Poroshenko, on what needs to happen to end the war in Ukraine. 

00:00  Is it the right decision for Ukraine to continue defending the city at all costs?
01:35 What's going on behind the scenes regarding Bakhmut? Is Zelenskyy overruling his top military brass? 
04:38 Poroshenko: Fast ammunition delivery is key 
07:03 'De-Putinizing' Ukraine and the world

Poroshenko served as president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. 

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