KYIV, Feb 22 - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan stresses that the fight against corruption is no less important for Ukraine than the fight against Russian aggression.

If Ukraine successfully copes with the campaign against corruption, it will refute the theses of Russian propaganda about Ukraine as a failed state... Fighting corruption is no less important than fighting against the Russian aggression, these are two sides of the same coin, he said during a speech before Ukrainian students on the Ukrainian-American relations in Kyiv on Wednesday.