Ukraine’s opposition got a boost in its struggle wrest power from President Viktor Yanukovych as a report said the European Union and US are working on an aid package to rival assistance from Russia.
Western nations are “ready to help Ukraine,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the head of the opposition Batkivshchyna party, said in a statement yesterday. Potential “short-term assistance” would help Ukraine through a transition period and prepare the grounds for a presidential election, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told the Wall Street Journal.
