KIEV (Reuters) - Cash-strapped Ukraine appealed for urgent financial assistance on Monday to prevent a default, saying it needed $35 billion (£21 billion) over two years to stop the economy "heading into the abyss".
In one of its first moves since the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich, the country's new leadership under Acting President Oleksander Turchinov called for an international donors' conference and said it needed aid in the next week or two.
