Top Russian lawmaker says ex-Ukrainian President Poroshenko is a ‘dreamer’ over new claim that Kiev will retake Crimea within year

The former president

The former president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, has sparked an explosive war of words with Russian politicians after insisting that Kiev will soon reassert control over the disputed Crimean peninsula, within the coming year.

As part of an address to Muslims on the eve of the celebration of the holy period of Eid al-Adha on Monday, Poroshenko called on Crimea’s historic Islamic Tatar population to support Kiev’s claim of sovereignty over the region.

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