MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On Sunday, Poroshenko stated that all illegal armed formations must be eliminated following a July 11 shootout between police officers and Right Sector militants that left three people dead and 13 injured.
"It seems to me that Petro Poroshenko tries to restore an order in Ukraine. I wish him good luck with that, it will not be an easy task. I talked to the Ukrainian officials in the European parliament and they clearly stated that they need Right Sector as a support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Eastern Ukraine, so they don’t want to fight Right Sector in Zakarpattia," Korwin-Mikke said in an interview.
The Right Sector militant group played a major role in violent clashes with police that led to the February 2014 coup in Ukraine.
Since April 2014, the Ukrainian government has been fighting independence supporters in the country's southeastern regions. The United Nations estimates that more than 6,500 people have died in the clashes.
