But the state of affairs modified when Russian Federation launched ferocious air strikes towards Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s enemies on September 30.
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Washington accused Putin of making an attempt to prop up his most essential Middle East ally by concentrating on Western-backed Syrian rebels as an alternative of IS and different extremists holding elements of Syria and Iraq.
“The invasion by Russian Federation of Crimea will not be accepted by us or by the global community”.
“I assume that’s going to be a serious theme of the journey – that nothing that is occurring within the Middle East has modified one iota of our dedication to the Ukrainian individuals and to their safety”, the USA official stated.
Moreover, the measures also included an additional support of 10 million euros funded by the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, which will be allocated for the “restoration of governance, reconciliation and peace-building in the eastern part of Ukraine, most affected by war and displacement”. “Ukraine is on the cusp – what happens in the next year is likely to determine the fate of the country for generations”, Biden told a joint briefing with President Petro Poroshenko following bilateral talks.
Yet Biden arrives in a country whose morale is sagging due to Poroshenko’s seeming inability to erase corruption that has ravaged Ukraine for much of its recent history. The “Heavenly Hundred” is what Ukrainians in Kiev call those who died during months of anti-government protests in 2013-14. “To root out the cancer of corruption”, the United States vice president said. Last week, he also introduced a special anti-corruption prosecutor whose responsibilities will include rooting out graft and limiting the political power of shadowy business tycoons long seen as obstructing good government practices in the former Soviet republic.
But some analysts remain unconvinced.
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Biden’s first event on Monday is to be a round table with reform-minded Ukrainian figures.
