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Putin – Russia did have people in Ukraine doing 'certain military tasks'
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia did have personnel in eastern Ukraine who were carrying out certain military tasks but denied Moscow had deployed regular troops there. …read more Source: The...
Russia says IMF's decision on Ukraine debt changes nothing
BEIJING (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s decision on Ukraine’s debt to Russia did not change anything to Moscow, Russian Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak told reporters in Beijing on Thursday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine says committed to good faith talks with Russia on $3 billion bond
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Finance Ministry said on Thursday it was committed to negotiating in good faith a restructuring of a $3 billion (2.1 billion pounds) Eurobond held entirely by Russia, after the International Monetary Fund ruled the bond was sovereign rather than private debt. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine 'ready to pay price' for EU trade after Russian move
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that he regretted Russia ending preferential trade with Ukraine on Wednesday in retaliation for Kiev’s free-trade pact with the EU but said he was “ready to pay the price” and that the accord with the Western bloc would be fully implemented on Jan....
Russia's Putin orders suspension of free trade zone with Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered officials to suspend Russia’s free trade zone with Ukraine from Jan. 1 of next year, the Kremlin said. …read more Source: The...
Russia says out-of-court deal on Ukraine debt impossible
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Wednesday an out-of-court settlement of the dispute over the Ukrainian debt to Russia was impossible. …read more Source: The...
Kremlin reiterates Ukraine must pay off debt to Moscow or face court
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s position on Ukraine’s $3 billion debt to Russia remains unchanged and Kiev must pay it off or face a court case, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's leaders say dismissing PM not on the agenda
KIEV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian parliament should not consider dismissing Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, the country’s president, parliament’s speaker and Yatseniuk said in joint statement on Tuesday, in which they called on lawmakers to work together to pass critical reform bills. …read more Source: The...
Russia supplies Syria mission with old cargo ships bought from Turkey
LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Earlier this year, an old refrigerator ship called the Georgiy Agafonov, built to transport fruit and vegetables for the Soviet Union, was quietly gathering rust in the Ukrainian port of Izmail where the Danube flows into the Black Sea. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine minister throws water in governor’s face in new row
© AFP/File | Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov wrote in his Facebook that he had thrown a glass of water at the reformist governor and former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili during a government meeting behind closed doors KIEV: Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov threw water at the reformist governor and former...
