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Finance Minister hopes Ukraine will get new IMF aid in early March – Interfax
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko said on Friday she hoped Ukraine would get its next tranche of financial aid from the International Monetary Fund in the first week of March, news agency Interfax Ukraine reported. …read more Source: The...
Two Ukraine civilians killed in rebel shelling near Luhansk – regional administration
KIEV (Reuters) – Two civilians were killed and six injured on Friday morning by rebel shelling of the town of Shchastya, near Luhansk city in east Ukraine, the head of the Kiev-controlled regional administration said. …read more Source: The...
Kremlin says leaders at Minsk talks in touch over Ukraine – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin’s spokesman said on Friday the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are in touch over the Ukraine crisis and that he expected a phone conversation to be agreed upon in the coming days, RIA news agency reported. …read more Source: The...
Eight Ukrainian servicemen killed in past 24 hours despite peace deal
KIEV (Reuters) – Eight Ukrainian service personnel have been killed and 34 wounded in fighting against separatists in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, a Kiev military spokesman said on Friday, despite a four-power peace deal worked out in Belarus. …read more Source: The...
Insight – In Russia, battle for university places deflates Crimea euphoria
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexandra Kartokhina always dreamed of studying in a big city. She even went to a Russian school in her native Crimea to help her achieve her ambition of studying in St Petersburg. …read more Source: The...
Even with Turkish Stream, Russia can't avoid sending gas via Ukraine
BRUSSELS/ESSEN/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s plan to cut out Ukraine as a gas transit route is unrealistic because the EU will seek non-Russian gas rather than build the links it would need to Moscow’s proposed new pipeline to Turkey, industry sources and analysts say. …read more Source: The...
EU to relaunch Ukraine-Russia gas talks – Juncker
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – the European Union will relaunch trilateral talks with Kiev and Moscow on supplies of Russian gas to Ukraine following Thursday’s peace accord with Russia over Ukraine, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said. …read more Source: The...
EU ready for ‘necessary steps’ if Ukraine pact breached
The EU warned Russia Thursday it was ready to take further measures in addition to the sanctions it has already imposed if a new Ukraine peace pact is breached, the bloc’s president Donald Tusk said. “The debate focused on how to support the implementation of the agreement – if it does not happen we will not hesitate to take the...
U.S. warns pro-Russian forces against seizing more Ukraine land
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. government official warned pro-Russian separatists on Thursday against seizing more territory in eastern Ukraine before a ceasefire agreement goes into effect on Sunday. …read more Source: The...
U.N. hopes genuine ceasefire will emerge from Ukraine deal
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday appealed to all parties to the conflict in eastern Ukraine to fulfill their commitments made at peace talks in Minsk, Belarus and to ensure the bloodshed comes to an end, his spokesman said. …read more Source: The...
