Ukraine in political, economic chaos as govt fails to deliver

Kiev, Ukraine

THE country is on the cliff of bankruptcy. A spate of politically motivated killings and mysterious suicides of former government officials has sown fear in the capital. Infighting has begun to splinter the pro-European majority coalition in Parliament. And a constant threat of war lingers along the Russian border.

A year after the election of Petro Poroshenko as president to replace the ousted Viktor Yanukovych, and six months after the swearing in of a new legislature, Ukraine remains deeply mired in political and economic chaos.

"Poroshenko, whether you like him or not, he's not delivering," said Bruce Jackson, the president of the Project on Transitional Democracies, an American non-p…