Ukraine's action man president faces voters' judgment

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko poses for a picture with servicemen during a rehearsal for the Independence Day military parade in central Kiev, Ukraine, August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

KIEV (Reuters) - The bodyguards were nervous, fingers poised over the triggers of their automatic weapons, as Ukraine's president inspected the site of a rocket attack from separatist territory which had killed 10 people that day, one of many visits to the front line.

"His security detail fill their boots with sweat whenever he goes," said Iryna Gerashchenko, deputy speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and an ally of President Petro Poroshenko.