Ukraine’s Poroshenko Gets Show of Support from NATO Leaders (VOA News)

Ukraine's president received a show of support from Western leaders at a NATO summit on Thursday as a Kremlin peace offer failed to halt fighting the country’s east where pro-Russia rebels have been gaining the upper hand against Ukrainian troops.

The West has backed Kyiv with words and imposed economic sanctions against Moscow, but offered Ukraine only non-lethal military support after Russia annexed Crimea in March, and rebels, widely believed to be supported by Moscow, have risen up against Kyiv in the country’s east.

Poroshenko, even though Ukraine is not a NATO member, has been invited to the alliance’s summit in Wales, where he has already met with U.S. President Barack Obama, summit host and British prime minister David Cameron, Germany's Angela Merkel, France's Francois Hollande and other Western leaders...............http://www.voanews.com/content/ukraines-poroshenko-gets-show-of-support-from-nato-leaders/2438328.html
4/9/14
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