Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, condemning Russian intervention in his country, said on Saturday that there were now thousands of foreign troops and hundreds of foreign tanks in Ukraine.
He was speaking at a news conference in Brussels ahead of a summit meeting with European Union leaders.
President Poroshenko said he believed that efforts to halt violence with pro-Russian rebels were very close to a "point of no return" and that failure could lead to "full-scale war".
"I think we are very close to the point of no return. The point of no return is full-scale war, which already happened on the territory controlled by separatists," he told a news conference in Brussels after meeting EU leaders.
He added, however, that a trilateral meeting on Monday involving representatives of Kiev, Moscow and the European Union could produce a ceasefire.
Poroshenko was answering a question about an earlier comment he had made about the "point of no return."
Poroshenko: Kyiv doesn't ask West to send troops but expects military-technological aid
United battalion of Ukrainian forces parade during a military ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of Ukraine's independence in the center of Kiev on Aug. 24, 2014.
Ukraine expects the international community to provide it with military-technological assistance rather than foreign military personnel, says Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
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