Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko met with US President Barack Obama along with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Warsaw on Wednesday, Polish TVN24 TV channel has reported.
The leaders made no immediate public statements, but Poroshenko praised the 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 in comments made late Tuesday in Warsaw.
Poroshenko and Obama are to attend celebrations in Warsaw marking the 25th anniversary of the first democratic elections in communist Poland, where the US President is to hold a speech.
Poroshenko is expected to join Western leaders for the D-Day celebrations in Normandy on Friday.
The violence between pro-Russian separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine meanwhile continued unabated on Wednesday.
At least six separatist fighters were killed and 20 were injured during a fight over a 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.