Only 2% of Ukrainian food exports go to Russian markets - Poroshenko

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that only 2% of Ukrainian food exports go to the Russian markets.

"The hybrid war started against Ukraine has an economic element. Russia almost fully closed its markets for Ukrainian producers. As an example: only 2% of Ukrainian food exports go to the closed Russian markets," Poroshenko said at the enlarged cabinet meeting in Kyiv on Tuesday.

Poroshenko said that Russia's policy is of a purely political character.

"Moscow is doing all this not with an economic purpose, there is no protection of economic interests here. Its goal is only a political one: to strangle our state, destabilize it and worsen the social and economic state [of Ukraine] as much as possible," the press service said.

Poroshenko added: "Without the chance of defeating us from the outside, as Ukrainian weapons have considerably improved, Russia is trying to undermine us inside. We withstand not only in the military aspect – we've withstood and are undergoing tests in the economic aspect," Poroshenko said.