KIEV: Ukraine announced Monday the suspension of goods deliveries to Crimea and threatened a tit-for-tat ban on food imports from Russia as tensions with Moscow flare over the annexed peninsula.
The Ukrainian interior minister also suggested that the government cut off power supplies to the annexed peninsula which declared a state of emergency at the weekend after its main electricity lines from Ukraine were blown up.
The new spike in tensions with Moscow comes as Kiev expects a free trade agreement between Ukraine and the European Union to enter into force from Jan 1, 2016.
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Source: theSun