Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is in Kyiv to discuss the upcoming presidential election in Ukraine set for May 25th.<br /><br />He will remain in the capital to celebrate Europe Day on May 17.<br /><br />The crisis in the south east of the country has dominated talks. <br /><br />The UN, meanwhile, has warned of a “deterioration” in human rights in Donetsk and Luhansk as well as evidence of persecution of ethnic Tatars in Crimea.<br /><br />Sporadic clashes broke out overnight between pro-Russian militia and Ukranian government forces in the town of Slovyansk..<br /><br />United Nations monitors in the south east say the incidents of targeted killings are on the rise and cases of abduction and torture reported.<br /><br />The UN believes that forces are at work to deliberately tear Ukraine apart.
