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will ukraine's foreign minister demitra caliber says his country would like to see a u. n. p summit by february, but does not expect russia to join russian. president putin says that he is open to negotiations, blames ukraine in its western allies for failing to engage and talks. rushes demands for peace talks to happen. include the west, recognizing new territory, sees from ukraine in so called votes, which took place in september. moscow proclaimed, had annex 4 provinces daniel glenn, hans as apple, regia and harrison. but the votes rejected as bogus and illegal by ukraine and the international community. russia says, all threats to its security forces in those territories must be eliminated. calling for the demilitarization of ukrainian forces versus formulas to sagal. our of says if those demands are not fulfilled, the issue will be decided by the russian army. or earlier i spoke to lee turner that he served as the british ambassador to ukraine from 2008 to 2012. explain why peace talks could be some way off. we've got her recognized that it's very reasonable for any no

press reports at the time qualified as threats from the leader of ukraine's rights sector. radicals. demitra year, osh now gas from has confirmed that this explosion that took place in russia's chavarria region during maintenance. work with 3 people required be killed in one injured. a restoration work is already underway though, and gas is transported through the pipeline in parallel. so there's redundancy built into this system. we saw the gas prices over the day to day here in europe fluctuate and go up around the time of the incident before going back down. but that's not necessarily unusual. as a spot price tends to swing wildly every day, the pipeline specifically takes the gas into slovakia, hungry and romania on the european side. so where does those countries stand with respect to gas prices as they stand right now here in europe? now 2 of those countries, slovakia and romania wanted an even lower cap on gas prices than that. $180.00 euros per megawatt hour that the you set on monday along with 10 other countries who also wanted the lowest gas cap possible to protect the households

where you're crying for minister demitra. columbus says his country would like to see a u. n. p summit by february, but does not expect russia to join russia's president, let him a fusion says he's open to negotiations and blame you quiet in its western allies for failing to engage in talks. rushes demands for peace talks to take place, include a west, recognizing new territory, seized from ukraine and so called referendum with referendums, which took place in september. moscow proclaimed it, had annexed 4 provinces. done yet, school hans, the parisha and harrison, but loads were rejected as bogus and illegal by ukraine and the national community . russia says all threats to security forces in those territories and be eliminated calling for the demilitarization of ukrainian forces. russia's form is the survey law says if those demands are not fulfilled, the issue will be decided by the russian army li, tanice served as the british ambassador at ukraine from 2008, 2012. and as the author of the hitchhikers guide to diplomacy, he joined me by skype from london. do you see any ho