The provincial government is giving money to provide medical assistance to the victims of violence in Ukraine. The province made the announcement Sunday.
The province will give $25,000 to provide first aid and medical supplies.
Premier Greg Selinger planned to attend a memorial service Sunday afternoon, organized by the Ukarinian Canadian Congress Manitoba Provincial Council, for those killed in the violent clashes between anti-government protesters and Ukrainian security forces.
"Manitobans stand in solidarity with our friends in Ukraine against the violence of this past week," Selinger said in a news release.
The memorial will start at 4:00 p.m. at Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic church, 505 Watt St.
Ukrainian lawmakers struggled to struggled Sunday to work out who is in charge of the country and its ailing economy after President Victor Yanukovych fled the capital Kyiv.
Protest leaders and the beleaguered president agreed Friday to form a new government and hold an early election. Parliament also slashed Yanukovych’s powers and voted to free his rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, from prison.
Fears percolated that some regions might try to break away, after three months of political crisis that has left scores of people dead in a country of strategic importance to the United States, European nations and Russia.
Ukraine is deeply divided between eastern regions that are largely pro-Russian and western areas that widely detest Yanukovych and long for closer ties with the European Union. Yanukovych's shelving of an agreement with the EU in November set off the wave of protests, but they quickly expanded their grievances to corruption, human rights abuses and calls for Yanukovych's resignation.
- With files from The Associated Press
