– Ukraine’s gas deal –
In the agreement published by Ukraine’s government, Kiev must pay the first tranche of its debt ($1.45 billion) before any gas deliveries are resumed and the full amount of $3.1 billion by the end of the year in order to receive gas in 2015.
Yatsenyuk however warned that the deal only “partly” solves Ukraine’s problem and urged the public to cut down on natural gas usage in the months to come.
“We will solve the gas problem when we diversify energy sources so that Russia does not dictate its conditions,” he said.
Moscow on Friday also sent a fourth convoy of aid trucks to eastern Ukraine, defying Kiev’s protests against an unsupervised mission across the border into separatist areas that it does not control.
Kiev said its border guards could only see the outside of the 76 trucks and blamed Moscow for using the convoy to “supply militants” rather than aid to the stricken civilian population.
The new UN report also said more than 930,000 people have been displaced in the rebel-held Donetsk and Lugansk regions, with nearly half a million of them fleeing to neighbouring countries, mainly to Russia.
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