Obama Meets Ukraine Leader Amid Fighting on Russia Border
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President Barack Obama met Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko for the first time as the leaders seek ways to defuse a pro-Russian uprising that’s claimed almost 200 lives in the former Soviet republic.
Poroshenko told reporters he’s committed to a “peaceful” process, while Obama pledged to step up non-lethal military support to Ukraine. The leaders held talks today in Warsaw, Poland, Ukraine’s western neighbor and a leading critic among European Union and NATO members of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March, which the U.S. and the EU consider illegal.