Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of unleashing a global propaganda campaign to persuade global powers not to recognise an election that gave the presidency to a pro-Western tycoon.
Washington for its part admitted to a "fundamental disagreement" with Russia and said President Barack Obama would meet Petro Poroshenko, whose May 25 presidential election win Moscow refuses to acknowledge, in Warsaw on Wednesday.
The months-long fight for future of the ex-Soviet nation -- 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 billionaire chocolate maker Poroshenko won 54.7 percent of a ballot that was disrupted across swathes of the eastern rust belt, according to AFP.
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