Section: Voice of America (USA)
Russia, Ukraine, Former Natural Gas Trading Partners, Now Trade Insults
Russia and Ukraine, once brotherly nations, are fighting over natural gas deliveries and military aid. Russia has stopped buying potatoes from Ukraine and selling gas to Ukraine. In return, Ukraine wants to seal its border with Russia, accusing the Kremlin of sending tanks and cannons to help Ukraine’s separatists. Just when relations could...
Ukraine’s President Promises Peace Plan, Ceasefire
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko says he will put forward a detailed peace plan that will include a ceasefire in the government’s battle with pro-Russian separatists. Opening a meeting the country’s national security council in Kyiv, Poroshenko said Monday he would roll out the peace plan this week, and that a ceasefire...
Developments in Ukraine
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In Focus: Ukraine’s Refugee Crisis
Lyudmila Denisenko endured weeks of deadly shootouts between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian insurgents in her home city of Slovyansk, the epicenter of the separatist conflict ravaging eastern Ukraine. But when a children’s hospital was shelled two weeks ago, her patience finally snapped. She and her family fled for the relative safety of...
Time Ripe for Ukraine Corruption Reforms
Ukraine’s new president, billionaire Petro Poroshenko, ran for office promising voters that he would institute reforms to end the kleptocracy seen during the regime of desposed President Viktor Yanukovych. His election was the culmination of reform demands expressed last winter on the Maidan, a square in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, where...
EU Urges Russia to Weigh Improved Offer for Ukraine Gas
The European Union’s mediator in a gas standoff between Russia and Ukraine urged Moscow on Monday to consider a compromise gas pricing offer for deliveries to Ukraine and he said he hoped to convene more talks this month. European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, who has brokered a series of three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine...
Russia Cuts Gas Supply to Ukraine
Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is cutting gas supplies to Ukraine following Kyiv’s failure to meet a Monday deadline to pay nearly $2 billion of its outstanding debt. Gazprom says Ukraine must now pre-pay for any natural gas after missing the deadline. Also Monday, Gazprom filed a lawsuit in a Stockholm arbitration court to try to...
Russia, Ukraine Fail to Reach Gas Deal as Deadline Looms
Russian energy giant Gazprom say emergency talks with Ukraine aimed at ending a natural gas pricing dispute have ended without agreement. It says an 0600 UTC deadline for Ukraine to pay a $1.95 billion gas debt still stands. Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kuprianov, speaking early Monday, also said Ukraine will be required to pre-pay for any gas...
