Ukraine tells Russia to recognise new president
Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of unleashing a mass propaganda campaign to persuade global powers not to recognise an election that gave the presidency to a pro-Western tycoon,reports AFP. The United States for its part acknowledged a "fundamental disagreement" with Russia and said President Barack Obama would extend his support to Petro Poroshenko when he meets the winner of the May 25 ballot in Warsaw on Wednesday. The months-long fight for the future of the ex-Soviet state -- splintered between a more nationalist west and a heavily Russified southeast -- has killed more than 300 people and resurrected the geopolitical barriers of the Cold War. Ukraine's separatist insurgency only intensified after 48-year-old chocolate maker Poroshenko won 54.7 percent of a poll that was disrupted across swathes of the eastern rust belt. Government forces reported suffering no casualties on Saturday while repelling two rebel attempts to recapture an airport in the eastern hub o