KIEV (Reuters) - President Petro Poroshenko said on Friday a "military threat from the east" would remain even if a peace deal holds between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
"Even under the most optimistic scenario ... the military threat from the east would unfortunately remain," he said, referring indirectly to Russia in a televised speech at the National Defence University.
(Reporting by Natalia Zinets, writing by Katya Golubkova, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
