Ukraine Currency Plunges Over 30% After Central Bank Gives Up On Indicative Rate

It had been a while since a member of the US state department had visited ground zero of its second most disastrous intervention in the past year (the first being the embarrassment that is ISIS) namely Kiev, Ukraine, the same place where precisely a year ago US assistant SecState Victoria Nuland was recorded in a hacked conversation saying to "Fuck the EU", and revealed as the mastermind behind the violent Ukraine coup. Which is perhaps why today US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Kiev on Thursday "in a signal of firm US support for the country amid growing international alarm at a surge in fighting."

In addition to whispering words of support to the local government, whose army has been on the defensive in past weeks in east Ukraine having lost several key outpusts, Kerry also unveiled $16 million in fresh US humanitarian aid .... http://www.zerohedge.com