KIEV: Ukraine handed foreigners -- including a US citizen -- top posts in a new reformist government on Tuesday aimed at rooting out endemic corruption amid a new push for a general ceasefire in the separatist east.

President Petro Poroshenko told a marathon parliament hearing that Ukraine had to learn from "foreign experience" as it tries to climb out of bankruptcy that many blame on decades of political gridlock and graft.

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