KIEV, Ukraine — In a display of Washington’s support for the interim authorities here, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signaled on Tuesday that the United States was ready to support them in securing a unified Ukraine but urged the country’s leadership to battle “the cancer of corruption.”
New York Times: Biden urges Ukrainian leaders to fight ‘cancer of corruption’
Ukraine's acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (R) shakes hands with US Vice President Joe Biden before their meeting in Kiev on April 22, 2014. US Vice President Joe Biden will meet Ukraine's new pro-Western leaders today in a symbolic show of America's support for Kiev as Washington and Moscow blamed each other for violating a peace deal to ease the country's crisis. AFP PHOTO / POOL / SERGEI SUPINSKY
