Ukraine has been offered further financial assistance from US Vice President Joe Biden. <br /><br />Another 50 million US dollars will boost an initial billion dollar promise, which Biden said would go to “work along many lines of effort, including Ukraine’s border”.<br /><br />Biden offered the support during a meeting with President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk on Saturday. <br /><br />Meanwhile residents in the eastern city of Kramatorsk were not impressed with Poroshenko’s plans to bring peace and stability back to Ukraine.<br /><br />“We don’t have the same path as Poroshenko. No, it is impossible for the east and west to be together, especially after Kyiv supported the killing of people in Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. I don’t think east and west can be together,” said one female resident.<br /><br />“What will happen? I really don’t know. We hope for the best, definitely, but we’ll see,” was one man’s comment.<br /><br />The assistant of Denis Pushilin, a senior leader in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, was fatally shot on Saturday. <br /><br />Sixteen bullets hit his car in what separatists claim was an assassination attempt on Pushilin.
