Section: South Africa
Ukraine’s winter gas problem may be over
The European Union has proposed a gas deal between Ukraine and Russia that would guarantee Ukraine at least 5 billion cubic metres of gas for the next six months. …read more Source:...
Hungary cuts gas to Ukraine
Hungary shuts natural gas shipments to Ukraine after Russian assurances about its own supplies. …read more Source:...
Ukraine, Russia start work to set up ‘buffer zone’ in east
Senior Ukrainian and Russian military officials have met to mark out a proposed 30km “buffer zone” in eastern Ukraine from which government forces and separatists will move weapons. …read more Source:...
Ukraine prepares to close Russia border
President Petro Poroshenko has instructed his government to consider temporarily closing Ukraine’s porous border with Russia to help halt its “intervention” in the Westward-leaning former Soviet state’s affairs. …read more Source:...
EU aims for Ukraine-Russia gas deal
European Energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger says he aims to propose an interim solution to the gas price row between Russia and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Ukraine to UN: We know what terrorism means
Ukraine’s prime minister is urging countries not to lift sanctions against Russia until his country regains control over its entire territory, including Crimea. …read more Source:...
Obama may lift sanctions if Russia agrees to peace
US President Barack Obama slammed Russia’s ‘aggression’ in Ukraine but has offered to lift sanctions against Moscow if it threw its weight behind a peace deal with Kiev. …read more Source:...
Ukraine troops prepare pullback as truce holds
A fragile truce between pro-Russian insurgents and Ukrainian forces appeared to consolidate as clashes subsided and attention focused on the unresolved status of the east. …read more Source:...
Russia not preparing new ‘tit-for-tat sanctions’
Russia is not working on a new package of measures in retaliation for Western sanctions over Moscow’s role in Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich says. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s pleas for lethal aid from US go unmet
US president Barack Obama says $46m in new assistance that the US will provide to Ukraine’s military will help the country defend against Russian aggression. …read more Source:...
