KIEV – Washington’s UN envoy accused Russia on Thursday of spinning “outright lies” on Ukraine designed to hide the Kremlin’s direct involvement in a war it launched to thwart Kiev’s pro-Western drive.Samantha Power’s address to a crowd of hundreds in Kiev delivered one of Washington’s toughest messages to Moscow since the warring sides grudgingly signed off on a loosely defined truce in February that threatened to collapse last week.Her emotional 70-minute speech also came a year into a presidency Petro Poroshenko has used to try to wipe out decades of crippling corruption and anaemic economic growth that left Ukraine reliant …read more
Source: AsiaOne
