14.12.2014 Airport Zaporozhye - NATO redeployed support for Ukraine
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Ukraine War Intense Combat Action In Pesky During Heavy Clashes In The Battle For Donetsk
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Ukraine is seeking at least $10 billion in aid to stave off a default as its economy shrinks under the strain of spending cuts and a separatist war, while foreign reserves languish at the lowest in more than a decade.
When we need financial assistance? Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said after meeting European Union officials in Brussels. Let me put it in a nutshell: yesterday.
The former Soviet republic is discussing a financial rescue with the U.S. and the EU, Valeriy Chaly, deputy chief of President Petro Poroshenkos administration, told reporters in Kiev. Ukraine needs an international donor conference to prevent default, Yatsenyuk told lawmakers Dec. 11.
The government is grappling with the deepest recession since 2009 and this years worst-performing currency, with the hryvnia plunging 48 percent against the dollar and a $17 billion international bailout proving insufficient. While a Dec. 9 truce in Ukraines easternmost regions has stemmed fatalities in a conflict thats killed more than 4,600, talks over a lasting peace deal have been delayed.
Without additional resources, its almost impossible to cover financial gaps, Chaly said. Talks are about the amount Ukraine needs to conduct reforms and avert default, and the timing of such support. I cant tell you the exact size but lets say $10 billion. Otherwise, it will be very, very difficult to resolve the issue.
Ukrainian debt fell after Chalys comments. The yield on dollar-denominated government bonds due in 2017 soared more than 3 percentage points to a record. The hryvnia weakened 0.3 percent against the dollar.
Ukraine today signed a $200 million loan pact with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to upgrade portions of natural gas pipelines.
The authorities in Kiev are seeking to unlock the next tranche of its International Monetary Fund-led rescue and plans to approve a 2015 budget prepared by the countrys new government on Dec. 26. An IMF mission will return to the eastern European nation early next year, First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said Dec. 13 in an e-mailed statement.
Yatsenyuk said Russias ultimate goal is to take over Ukraine and to eliminate Ukraine.
On the ground, the latest cease-fire has eased casualties, with no deaths reported by the military since Dec. 11, though skirmishes have taken place that the government blames on the pro-Russian insurgents. The intensity of attacks on Ukrainian forces is easing, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said today.
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Ukraine Seeking $10 Billion in Aid Amid Talks With U.S., EU
Putins propaganda machine is fighting a desperate PR battleat home and abroadfor control of the narrative of its war against Ukraine. The Republican victory in the U.S. midterms has consolidated Americas anti-Russian narrative as evidenced by the Senates passage of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, which supplies lethal weapons to Ukraine. Even more ominous is the findings of the Levada Center that only 5-6 percent of Russians are prepared to sacrifice for Putins Ukraine ventures. Russians say, if anyone is to shoulder a burden, it should be Putin and company. These setbacks make the battle for German public opinion even more crucial, a battle that is now being conducted on the front pages of the German press.
The two open letters to the German public
Two open letters to the public capture the intense battle for Germanys dominant narrative of Russias War on Ukraine.
The first, entitled Another War in Europe? Not in our Name argues that another European war must be avoided at all costs, that Russia is defending its legitimate interests, that the media must be neutral, and that the hostilities in Ukraine go deeper than Putins leadership. The Not in Our Name letter was signed by sixty prominent Germans, from the fields of theology, politicsGerhard Schroeder, Roman Herzog, and other prominent Social Democrats and members of Die Linke party; industryEckhard Cordes, Stefan Duerr; the artsWim Wenders, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Maria Brandauer; and one bio farmer.
The second open letter, entitled Secure Peace, Do Not Reward Expansionism argues that Putins Russia is the clear aggressor against Ukraine, that Russia has violated past agreements in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, that Russias media has defamed the Ukrainian people (who bore the brunt of World War II losses), and that the territorial integrity of Ukraine (and Georgia and Moldova) should not be sacrificed to the level-headedness of German policy towards Russia. The Do Not Reward Expansionism letter was signed by one hundred top academics from Germanys fabled universities and by foreign correspondents specializing in Russia and Ukraine.
Not in Our Name blends moral relativism with peace at any price
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Do Not Reward Expansionism combines clear Russian guilt with German historical responsibility
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Why the media offensive of Putin allies?
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The Battle For German Public Opinion: The Russia/Ukraine Narrative
Ukraine: 2 volontaires tus dans l #39;Est, Kiev renforce son arme
Deux volontaires ukrainiens ont pri vendredi dans l #39;Est sparatiste prorusse en dpit de la trve, au moment o le ministre de la Dfense a annonc un renfo...
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