International Trade Minister Ed Fast arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for two days of meetings as fighting intensifies between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the embattled country.

Fast, who has been to Ukraine twice is the last six months, is there to talk free trade his counterpart, Aivaras Abromaviius, but also plans to announce four initiatives.

This has been excerpted from the 25 January 2015 edition of CBC News and is available in its entirety at:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ed-fast-talks-free-trade-in-kyiv-as-fighting-intensifies-in-eastern-ukraine-1.2931120