Ukraine: National flags fly where Lenin #39;s statue once stood
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia Slovakia says it has seen a 50 percent drop in Russiangassupplies in the past day.
Prime Minister Robert Fico says the nationalgascompany, SPP, wouldn't restrictgassupplies domestically. He told reporters Wednesday the government would hold a crisis meeting if the trend continues, adding the Russians blame technical problems.
"The Russian side talks about technical problems, about the necessity of filling up storage for the winter season," Mr. Fico said, according to Reuters. "I have used this expression and I will use it again: gas has become a tool in a political fight."
Russia's state-owned gas company Gazprom has not yet commented on the reported drop.
Slovakia, Poland and other East European countries have reported similar drops in Russiangasflows in recent weeks. So far, they have proved temporary.
Slovakia, which is almost entirely dependent on Russiangas, was among the nations hit hardest byRussia's2009 cutoff ofgas travelling through Ukraine to Europe. Now, it can get supplies from the West if needed.
Slovakia also deliversgasback to Ukraine and Fico said his country is ready to meet its commitments.
Concerns about another gas disruption have sent energy prices upward in Europe.Central European spot gas markets rose to over $31.52 per megawatt-hours, according to Reuters. That's their highest levels since the Ukraine crisis broke out in February/March.
Late last week, Russia, Ukraine, and the EU appeared close to a deal to resume gas supplies to Ukraine, which have been cut off since June. Those talks are expected to continue this week, although analysts are skeptical the three sides will reach any longterm agreement.
"There is no final compromise yet," Andriy Kobolyev, chief executive of Ukraine's state-owned gas company Naftogaz said in an interview Monday, according to a press release from the company."There is only a proposal of the EU Commission for a solution, which needs to be discussed and approved by the governments of both countries."
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Ukraine crisis: Slovakia says Russian gas supply cut in half (+video)
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia Slovakia says it has seen a 50 percent drop in Russiangassupplies in the past day.
Prime Minister Robert Fico says the nationalgascompany, SPP, wouldn't restrictgassupplies domestically. He told reporters Wednesday the government would hold a crisis meeting if the trend continues, adding the Russians blame technical problems.
"The Russian side talks about technical problems, about the necessity of filling up storage for the winter season," Mr. Fico said, according to Reuters. "I have used this expression and I will use it again: gas has become a tool in a political fight."
Russia's state-owned gas company Gazprom has not yet commented on the reported drop.
Slovakia, Poland and other East European countries have reported similar drops in Russiangasflows in recent weeks. So far, they have proved temporary.
Slovakia, which is almost entirely dependent on Russiangas, was among the nations hit hardest byRussia's2009 cutoff ofgas travelling through Ukraine to Europe. Now, it can get supplies from the West if needed.
Slovakia also deliversgasback to Ukraine and Fico said his country is ready to meet its commitments.
Concerns about another gas disruption have sent energy prices upward in Europe.Central European spot gas markets rose to over $31.52 per megawatt-hours, according to Reuters. That's their highest levels since the Ukraine crisis broke out in February/March.
Late last week, Russia, Ukraine, and the EU appeared close to a deal to resume gas supplies to Ukraine, which have been cut off since June. Those talks are expected to continue this week, although analysts are skeptical the three sides will reach any longterm agreement.
"There is no final compromise yet," Andriy Kobolyev, chief executive of Ukraine's state-owned gas company Naftogaz said in an interview Monday, according to a press release from the company."There is only a proposal of the EU Commission for a solution, which needs to be discussed and approved by the governments of both countries."
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Ukraine crisis: Slovakia says Russian gas supply drops by half
At least 11 adults were killed in Ukraine on Wednesday when artillery shells struck a schoolyard and bus stop in suburban Donetsk on the belated first day of school for the city at the center of a pro-Russia rebellion against rule from Kiev, Russian and Ukrainian news agencies reported.
The blasts at Donetsk School No. 57 and at the nearby bus stop detonated when all 70 schoolchildren were inside the building, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
At least one teacher was among the dead, and news agencies said another of the casualties was a gunman with the Russian-backed separatist militia that has been fighting government forces for control of eastern Ukraine since March. City authorities in Donetsk reported on their website that six people were killed at the bus stop.
A Russian Foreign Ministry official, Konstantin Dolgov, accused Ukrainian military officials of "particular cynicism" in the shelling of the school grounds on the first day local authorities were attempting to start the school year already delayed a month by the hostilities.
The latest fatalities, which Ukraine government forces in turn blamed on the Russian-backed separatists, suggested that a Sept. 5 cease-fire agreed to by the two sides is unraveling. The separatists have been waging fierce assaults on Donetsk international airport for the last five days, and a leader of the rebellion told Interfax news agency that his fighters were close to seizing the strategic venue.
"In two, at most three, days the Donetsk airport will come under our control, Alexander Zakharchenko, purported prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, was quoted as telling the Russian news agency.
In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, a spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council insisted the airport, which has been closed since May, remained in government hands.
Col. Andriy Lysenko said the Ukrainian military hadn't suffered any fatalities over the previous two days, although five soldiers were wounded in Wednesday's fighting over the airport. He said the government troops had "brilliantly defended" their hold on what was Ukraine's second-largest airport until the rebellion began five months ago.
The Associated Press reported from Donetsk that although its reporter couldn't get close to the airport due to the artillery exchanges, shells could be heard coming from government positions outside the airport, suggesting that Ukrainian troops may have lost control of part or all of it.
The cease-fire signed four weeks ago in Minsk, the Belarus capital, called for an end to hostilities and a nearly 20-mile zone of separation between the Ukrainian government troops and rebel forces who Kiev officials and their Western allies contend are armed and instigated by Moscow.
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Ukraine cease-fire unraveling; 11 killed at schoolyard and bus stop