Ted Cruz to meet with protest movement leaders in Ukraine
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will visit Ukraine this month and meet with leaders of the protest movement that forced out the country #39;s pro-Russian president.
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Ukraine crisis: Ultimatum issued to pro-Russia separatists in Donetsk
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Ukraine will ask a Stockholm court to require Russia to continue natural-gas supplies during arbitration as a June payment deadline looms.
Talks between Moscow and Kiev on the gas price have stalled and can only be resolved in arbitration that may start after May 28, Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said in an interview in Brussels. OAO Gazprom, Russias natural-gas exporter, sent Ukraine a bill yesterday for an estimated $1.7 billion of gas the country may import next month, saying it will cut off supplies if no money is received by June 2.
Well insist both sides must fulfill their obligations in good faith, as a precautionary measure, Shlapak said of the arbitration case Ukraine is filing. We will ship gas to Europe as set out in the transit contract. If you please, deliver gas to Ukraine and dont break the contract. This is how well ask the arbitration court to approach the issue.
Ukraine depends on Russia for about half its gas and carries about 15 percent of the European Unions annual use of the fuel through its pipeline network, and a cutoff could disrupt shipments to the EU.
The situation has reached a dead end from the point of view of negotiations, Shlapak said in the interview late yesterday. He rejected the gas price Russia has demanded since April, saying the increase was politically motivated.
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Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said, Well insist both sides must fulfill their obligations in good faith, as a precautionary measure.
Arbitration is necessary as because the government in Kiev refuses to make prepayments at the higher price, while Russia says it will not discuss a lower price until a debt for previous supplies is paid off, Shlapak said.
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May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discusses the conflict in Ukraine with Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote at the Foreign Ministry building in central Moscow.(Source: Bloomberg)
Ukraine is as close to civil war as you can get, and a solution to the crisis must satisfy its regions, Russia said, after eastern rebels ambushed a Ukrainian army convoy in the deadliest blow in their campaign to secede.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there is a real war in eastern and southern Ukraine, where more than 30 attackers struck a convoy yesterday near the city of Kramatorsk, killing at least six paratroopers. Having accused Russia of supporting separatists with its special forces and saboteurs, Ukrainian acting Defense Minister Mykhaylo Koval said the two countries were embroiled in an undeclared war.
The ambush was the rebels deadliest attack against Ukraines military since they began a campaign to secede after Russia annexed Crimea in March. The battle came after separatists in Luhansk and Donetsk agreed to join forces to confront the central government. Casualties included quite a number of self-defense fighters killed by artillery and mortars, which may complicate a May 25 presidential election.
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe its as close to civil war as you can get, Lavrov told Bloomberg Television in an interview in Moscow. In the east and south of Ukraine, there is a war, a real war, with heavy weaponry used, and if this is something that is conducive to free and fair elections, then I dont understand something about freedom.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of supporting the insurgents. It says his government has failed to make good on a pledge to move about 40,000 troops back from the frontier with Ukraine, a country of 45 million people bordering European Union and NATO member states Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
We are confronted with an unprecedented situation, which is challenging not only the post-war order, but also our security and peace in our region, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak told reporters at a global security conference in Bratislava today.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk urged Russia yesterday to condemn the insurgent groups and do all it can to stabilize the situation. The crisis has fueled the worst standoff between Russia and its Cold War foes since the fall of the Iron Curtain, with the U.S. and EU slapping sanctions on companies and people in Putins inner circle.
The escalation ended a five-day rally in Russian stocks. The Micex Index (INDEXCF) slid 0.1 percent to 1,383.98 at 4:41 p.m. in Moscow. The ruble strengthened 0.3 percent to 34.7426 per dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Ukraines hryvnia was 0.8 percent weaker to the dollar, bringing its loss to 31 percent since the start of the year.
The violence in Ukraine is building into regular warfare between militia and the Ukrainian armed forces, and that means the threat of civil war is growing, Dmitry Orlov, director general of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications in Moscow, said by phone today.
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