EU's Ashton calls for dialogue to end Ukraine crisis, offers aid for reform

KIEV (Reuters) - The European Union's foreign policy chief urged Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich on Wednesday to sort out violence on the streets and called for efforts across the political spectrum to pursue dialogue to move Ukraine out of crisis.

Catherine Ashton told a news conference after she met opposition leaders and Yanukovich separately in Kiev that the EU was ready to help Ukraine in many ways, both financially and with expertise, to improve its long-term economic development and help with possible changes to its constitutional set-up.