Biden also welcomed the appointment of a new prosecutor general in Ukraine as "an important first step to bringing much needed reform," to the prosecutor general office. Ukrainian lawmakers on Thursday appointed Yuriy Lutsenko, a close ally of Poroshenko, to the position.
Biden also spoke with Ukraine`s new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman who pledged to maintain the momentum of reform with a focus on fulfilling commitments to the International Monetary Fund, the White House said. Biden and the Ukrainian leaders also condemned aggression by combined Russian and separatist forces against Ukraine, and called upon all sides to speed progress in implementing the Minsk peace agreement, it said.
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