The EU is finally waking up to the reality of Ukraine’s economic plight and ill-advised politics, but it still remains foursquare behind the Kiev leadership, Russia’s envoy to the EU said on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko may try to become Premier again, a Ukrainian online newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing a source in the pro-presidential faction in parliament.
The sanctions imposed by the European Union against Russia over its stance on the Ukraine crisis and Moscow’s countermeasures will cost Europe €100 billion and endanger over 2 million jobs, Russia’s EU ambassador warned on Wednesday.
Earlier participants of the Contact Group’s meeting stated a consistent reduction of the number of violations of the ceasefire regime starting from August 28
Ukraine's economy has deteriorated since an armed conflict between Kiev and Donbass self-proclaimed people's republics' forces had erupted in April 2014 in the country's southeast. Since the beginning of the conflict, Ukraine’s national currency, the hryvnia, has been devalued almost threefold, and the GDP has been continuously decreasing.