Russia cuts Ukraine\\\'s gas after talks fail
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
KIEV, June 16, (AFP): Russia cut the flow of gas to Ukraine Monday after last-ditch talks failed to end a dispute over debts that threatens to disrupt supplies to Europe for the third time in a decade.
Ukraine hosted the last-gasp talks hoping to keep an energy shortage from compounding the problems of its new pro-Western leaders as they confront a two-month separatist insurgency threatening the very survival of the ex-Soviet state.