MOSCOW — The Ukrainian government on Monday abruptly banned freight traffic to the Crimean peninsula as tensions with Russia over the disputed territory have reignited into threats of a full-blown trade war.
Russia annexed Crimea in March last year, but the peninsula remains dependent on infrastructure and deliveries from Ukraine for supplies of electricity, water and food.
On Monday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed suspending the dispatch of cargo to the peninsula while his government “defines the model for Ukraine’s future relations with the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea,” a presidential statement read.
While fighting has significantly decreased between Russian-backed separatists and Ukraine’s …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
