Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko backed rival Arseniy Yatsenyuk as future premier Friday, to “unite” the country after it secured a deal with Moscow on future gas supplies.However Kiev seemed helpless in the face of next Sunday’s elections organised by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, decried by the West and welcomed by Moscow as the region continues to drift closer to its orbit.”I have proposed that the Petro Poroshenko Bloc put forward Arseniy Yatsenyuk to the post of prime minister,” Poroshenko wrote on Twitter after meeting with his party. He later added that his choice was dictated by …read more
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