KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- In the face of continuing Russian aggression toward Ukraine, parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov called for the strengthening of Ukraine's armed forces.
Turchynov's remarks were made in the midst of a fragile cease-fire and following the Verkhovna Rada's adoption of a presidential bill that grants eastern Ukraine limited self-rule, a major concession to end the rebellion by pro-Russian separatists.