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Russia prepares reprisals against Ukraine over Crimea blackout
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it would cut off gas supplies to Ukraine and threatened to halt coal deliveries, ratcheting up a dispute over a power blackout in Crimea at a time when a ceasefire between Kiev and separatist rebels is fraying. …read more Source: The...
Putin's 'realpolitik' aims to make Russia indispensable
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – By intervening in Syria, President Vladimir Putin has broken Russia’s relative isolation and is making it the “indispensable nation” in conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and with Islamic State while the United States balks at deeper involvement. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine halts goods deliveries to Crimea amid new tensions with Russia
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...
EU, Russia, Ukraine to hold joint trade talks on Dec 1
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union, Russia and Ukraine will hold three-way trade talks in Brussels on Dec. 1, the EU said on Monday, in the latest effort to overcome Moscow’s opposition to an EU-Ukraine trade pact that is due to take effect in January. …read more Source: The...
Pro-Ukraine activists block repair of sabotaged power lines to Crimea
KIEV (Reuters) – Pro-Ukrainian activists prevented repairs to sabotaged power lines leading to Crimea on Monday, keeping the Russian-annexed peninsula starved of electricity for a second day and tensions between Moscow and Kiev high. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine will respond in kind to any Russian trade bans – PM Yatseniuk
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Monday Ukraine would respond in kind to any trade bans by Russia, which plans to introduce a ban on Ukrainian food imports over Kiev’s participation in Western sanctions. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine's Poroshenko suggests suspending cargo transport with Crimea – statement
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday he had proposed the government discuss suspending cargo with Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russian from Ukraine last year. …read more Source: The...
Electricity from Ukraine to Crimea shut off after power pylons blown up: Russian media
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Electricity supplies from Ukraine to Crimea were entirely shut off on Saturday night after power pylons in Ukraine were blown up, Russian media reported on Sunday morning. …read more Source: The...
State of emergency in Crimea after electricity pylons ‘blown up’
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea after pylons carrying electricity from Ukraine were blown up cutting off power to almost two million people, media and the Russian government said today. The Russian Energy Ministry didn’t say what had caused the outages, but Russian media reported that two pylons in the Kherson region...
Western leaders agreed to extend Russia sanctions by six months – diplomat
(Reuters) – Western leaders who met on the margins of last week’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters. …read more Source: The...
