Obama meets Ukraine's president-elect: Report

President Barack Obama met Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday, in a show of US support for Ukraine's right to chart its own future, before an encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin, AFP reports.

Obama sat down with Poroshenko in Warsaw during a trip designed to assuage security concerns in eastern Europe following Russia's annexation of Crimea and what Washington says are efforts to destabilise Ukraine.