KIEV, Jan. 25 – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that Russian leaders are doing everything in their power to weaken and divide European Union member state countries.

"Who does not benefit from EU bloc membership? France benefits, as does Germany and the UK, even despite Brexit, as does Finland and the Finns. Russia is attempting to weaken the EU. Putin wants to dissolve trust in the bloc and to divide the EU in order to exert influence on EU member states individually," the Ukrainian president said in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.