KIEV: Coalition talks intensify on Tuesday between the pro-Western winners of Ukraine’s parliamentary poll, while attacks by pro-Russian insurgents in the east highlight the obstacles to their promises of peace and deeper European Union (EU) ties.

The day after pro-West and moderate nationalist forces backing President Petro Poroshenko scored a big win in Sunday’s election, the hard work of forming a ruling coalition began.

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