Reuters, 08/09 15:35 CET
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine still
faces the threat of a full-scale Russian military attack despite several
days of relative calm on the front-lines of the east where government
forces confront Russian-backed separatists, President Petro Poroshenko
said on Tuesday.
Poroshenko comments at a government meeting come amid
signs of discord in the governing coalition over his peace efforts and
disenchantment over falling living standards and economic hardship.
Russia’s aim is to “strangle our state economically and
destabilise it,” he said, referring to a Russian ban on Ukrainian food
imports and a failure to agree on a new price structure for Russian gas
imports which has left Ukraine’s storage levels dangerously low as
winter approaches.
Moscow is also now insisting Kiev repays a $3 billion
bond in full in December, disassociating itself from an agreement by
other of Ukraine’s creditors to ease repayment conditions on its huge
foreign commercial debt.
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Source: Euronews
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