“Passenger areas in Sloviansk, Krasny Lyman, Rubizhne and Pereyizna stations have also been devastated. It is impossible to predict how many railway stations and passenger areas will be destroyed or determine the extent of damage by the end of hostilities.”
Yuri Vendik, BBC Russia reporter, visited the tent camp near the Gukovo border checkpoint and talked to Igor, a Ukrainian army sergeant
On Friday, ratings agency Fitch said that while the new US and European sanctions would not materially impair Russian banks' credit profiles, it expected that capital markets would remain closed to Russian entities in 2014-2015.
War begins when it is impossible to remember the names of all the fallen heroes. Our goal is to collect and store all these names…to remember.” say the organizers.
"There are several battalion groups there. There is a large concentration of military hardware there. These things are being done just to exert pressure. Or to enter," he said.
To say the winter wheat crop will break all records is a big statement considering it doesn't include Crimea or the crop from the conflict zone but does take in to account the harvest is coming to a close.
It's a bit like saying Germany will win this game when they are five nil up against Brazil at halftime, it’s basically in the bag.
The European Central Bank meets on Thursday, but it is not expected to tweak policy as it has signalled it first wants to await the results of June's rate cuts and long-term loans to banks (TLTROs) due in September before making further moves
“In Frankfurt, traders continued dumping their shares of Mriya Agro Holding (MAYA GF -24.1%), which have collapsed 55 percent in seven straight losing sessions to their lowest price since September 2009.”
Mriya said last week its “liquidity position” had worsened amid rising costs and falling prices of farming products. Blackstone Group International Partners LLP and Dragon Capital will review its finances and propose remedies that “are likely to include the restructuring of the group’s balance sheet,” the company said.
The $400 million of 2018 notes from Mriya tumbled to 45 cents on the dollar at 11.10 a.m. in Kyiv from 78.5 cents the day before the announcement, lifting the yield to 38.53 percent. Its shares tumbled 48 percent in the past three days to the lowest level in almost five years in Frankfurt, valuing the company at 222 million euros ($297 million).