EU urges Kiev to hold reforms

- Ukraine should hold despite the political crisis in Kiev to reform. This is necessary as the country at a critical crossroads,, '' is in, said a spokesman for the European Commission Monday.

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has survived a confidence vote in the Ukrainian parliament, but needs to find new allies. The political uncertainty reforms are likely to be late in coming.

The foreign ministers of France and Germany after consultations in Berlin also stressed that Kiev should continue the reforms. They travel later Monday to the Ukrainian capital to speak with, among others, President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Jatsenjoek and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.