Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko met with US President Barack Obama along with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Warsaw on Wednesday, TVN24 TV reported.
The leaders made no immediate public statements, but Mr. Poroshenko praised Western solidarity over Ukraine’s conflict with Russia. “We see that in this moment the whole world is on our side. The aggressor is condemned to isolation,” he said.
The violence between pro-Russian separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine meanwhile continued unabated on Wednesday.
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At least six separatist fighters were killed and 20 were injured during a fight over an Interior Ministry troop base in the city of Luhansk, the National Guard said on Wednesday.
It said that the troops surrendered the base in the morning after battling some 300 fighters overnight. “They fought to the last bullet,” the National Guard, a force that belongs to the Interior Ministry, said.
Luhansk has been tense since Monday, when 13 people were killed in the east Ukrainian city, eight of them in a bomb attack on the separatists’ headquarters.
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