KIEV: US Vice President Joe Biden meets Ukrainian leaders on Monday to kickstart their drive against corruption and reassure them of Western support in the face of the current focus on Syria.
Biden’s visit is his fourth to Kiev since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March 2014 and then watched with approval as pro-Kremlin insurgents carved out their own region in the eastern industrial heartland of the ex-Soviet state.
He met Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in private early Monday and will speak to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk before delivering a highly anticipated address to parliament the following day.
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Source: theSun
