Cutting More Ties

From the BBC:
"Ukraine closes airspace to all Russian planes"

 

Ukraine has banned all Russian planes from using its airspace and exports of Russian gas to Ukraine have been halted by state-controlled giant Gazprom. The decision was announced by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at a televised government meeting. Gazprom said it had halted gas deliveries to Ukraine because it had used up all the gas it had paid for. But Ukraine said it had stopped buying from Gazprom because it could get cheaper gas from Europe. The airspace ban applies to military planes as well as civil airliners. "The Ukrainian government has decided to ban all transit flights for all Russian airlines in Ukraine's airspace," said Mr Yatsenyuk. "The government is instructing [aviation authority] Ukraerorukh, in line with the norms of international law, to inform the Russian Federation that Russian airlines and Russian aircraft do not have the right to use Ukraine's airspace any longer."  Following previous clashes over gas supplies, the two countries had agreed that Ukraine would pay for its gas in advance. Russia cut off gas to Ukraine in June 2014 as the conflict between the government in Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated. However, it resumed them following the pre-payment deal.   About 15% of gas used in Europe travels through Ukraine. The EU has been holding talks aimed at keeping supplies running between the two sides.

^ It is good for the Ukraine to continually stop its reliance on Russia especially since Russia annexed the Crimea and is supplying the ethnic Russian terrorists in eastern Ukraine. Russia tries to play the victim is all of this when in fact they are the aggressors who planned all of this years ago. Russia is struggling as its economy and people are hurt from the international sanctions placed on it over the Ukraine and for the low price of oil on the international market. I hope those in Moscow will finally start to see the error of their ways and try to rejoin the international community again rather than trying to make the world more unstable. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34920207