KIEV (AFP) – Moscow promised on Saturday to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kievs failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea.Russian President Vladimir Putins unexpected decision was announced just a day after Ukraine upped pressure on the breakaway Black Sea peninsula by severing all its train and bus ties with the mainland.The Kremlin did not link Putins discounted energy offer to Kievs increasingly punitive approach to the renegade region of 2.3 million.But Russias public support in Crimea — essential in the face of global condemnation of its March …read more
Source: Dunya TV
