Obama Impressed By Poroshenko's Vision

Barack Obama has met Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko and told him that the US is committed to supporting the country in the long term.

Their meeting in Poland came as pro-Russia separatists continue to battle Ukrainian troops in the country's east.

The US president announced that his administration would give Ukraine $5m (£3m) worth of body armour, night-vision goggles and communication equipment.

The White House says Mr Obama has approved more than $23m (£13.7m) in security assistance to Ukraine since early March, when the situation there began to deteriorate.

Mr Obama told reporters in Warsaw: "The United States is absolutely committed to standing behind the Ukrainian people not just in the coming days, weeks, but in the coming years."

He said Mr Poroshenko's election signalled Ukrainians had rejected violence and corruption in favour of democracy.

"I have been deeply impressed by his vision, partly because of his experience as a businessman," Mr Obama said.

At the same time, the president warned it was critical that other nations now support Mr Poroshenko and his new government, including by training its military and police.

He urged the international community to keep up the pressure on Moscow not to support pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

Thanking the Americans for offering support, Mr Poroshenko said the next phase will be crucial to building a peace process out of the country's political crisis.

Mr Poroshenko, a confectionery tycoon, is set to take office on Saturday.

Discarded weapons at a captured National Guard post in Luhansk

Even as he met with the US president in a hotel reports were emerging of pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine seizing two government bases in battles around Luhansk.

They reportedly seized quantities of ammunition and explosives from a border guards' post and took another installation after National Guard forces ran out of ammunition.

Officials said in a statement that six militants were killed and three Ukrainian servicemen were injured in 10 hours of fighting overnight at the National Guard base.

In Kiev, interim President Oleksandr Turchynov, who will hand over to Poroshenko on Saturday, has asked the country's Security and Defence Council to consider imposing martial law in parts of eastern Ukraine in a bid to stabilize the situation.

Ukraine's prime minister, defence and interior ministers as well as heads of other security and intelligence agencies are all members of the council.

Mr Turchynov was reported to have left for a visit to eastern Ukraine.

Mr Obama will fly to Brussels later to meet leaders of the biggest industrialised nations for a Group of Seven summit.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had been due to host them in the Olympic city of Sochi, was excluded following Russia's annexation of Crimea.

He is due to hold separate meetings with Germany's Angela Merkel, Britain's David Cameron and France's Francois Hollande on the sidelines of events in France this week commemorating the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings.

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