KIEV, July 13 - President Petro Poroshenko ordered Ukraine's security services and police on Monday to disarm "illegal groups,“ saying they threatened to further destabilize a country fighting separatists in its east.

Poroshenko said a weekend standoff between members of a far-right group and police in the western town of Mukacheve, close to the border with Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, was simply a turf war over smuggling routes.