KIEV: Moscow promised on Saturday (Dec 27) to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kiev’s failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 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 Putin’s “discounted” energy offer to Kiev’s increasingly punitive approach to the renegade region of 2.3 million. But Russia’s public support in Crimea – essential in the face of global condemnation of its …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
