Source: news.nationalpost.com - Wednesday, February 25, 2015
MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Moscow of lying “to my face” Tuesday as Russia warned that Ukraine could run out of natural gas within two because of a dispute over payments. The warning by Alexey B. Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian energy behemoth, illustrated how the hostilities between Russia and Ukraine are hardly limited to the battlefields in eastern Ukraine, where a cease-fire agreed to nearly two weeks ago has still not fully taken hold. Secretary Kerry told a Senate committee Tuesday that Russia has “been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities [in Ukraine] to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” Russia has long used its muscle as the region’s major energy supplier to wield political and economic influence, particularly in disputes with Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. A bitter feud over gas payments has been a subplot of the wider political dispute between Moscow and Kyiv over the past year. Susan Walsh / AP Photo Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to review the State Department's fiscal 2016 budget request. () As part of that dispute, Russia last year cut off supplies and ended a longstanding practice of selling gas to Ukraine on credit and instead demanded
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MOSCOW — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Moscow of lying “to my face” Tuesday as Russia warned that Ukraine could run out of natural gas within two because of a dispute over payments. The warning by Alexey B. Miller, the chief executive of Gazprom, the state-controlled Russian energy behemoth, illustrated how the hostilities between Russia and Ukraine are hardly limited to the battlefields in eastern Ukraine, where a cease-fire agreed to nearly two weeks ago has still not fully taken hold. Secretary Kerry told a Senate committee Tuesday that Russia has “been persisting in their misrepresentations, lies, whatever you want to call them, about their activities [in Ukraine] to my face, to the face of others, on many different occasions.” Russia has long used its muscle as the region’s major energy supplier to wield political and economic influence, particularly in disputes with Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. A bitter feud over gas payments has been a subplot of the wider political dispute between Moscow and Kyiv over the past year. Susan Walsh / AP Photo Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to review the State Department's fiscal 2016 budget request. () As part of that dispute, Russia last year cut off supplies and ended a longstanding practice of selling gas to Ukraine on credit and instead demandedfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1BTuAQV
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