The Kalinina coal mine is seen in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on December 1, 2014 -© AFP/File / by Dmitry ZAKS
KIEV: Ukraine said Friday it had been forced to ask Russia to supply electricity to make up for energy shortages caused by the loss of control to pro-Moscow separatists of the coal-producing east.
But Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn said Ukraine’s giant neighbour was willing to help only if Kiev diverted some of the supplies to Crimea — a strategic peninsula that Russia invaded and annexed in March.
He did not say whether Kiev was ready to accept Moscow’s terms.
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Source: The Borneo Post
