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April 11, 2014

Russia Warns of Ukraine Gas Cuts; Nuland Touts "Truth-Telling Campaign" 
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Tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine are
continuing to rise. NATO has released satellite images showing Russian
fighter jets and tanks near the Ukrainian border, where it says as many
as 40,000 Russian troops have massed. Russia, meanwhile, has warned it
could cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine if the government does not
pay its debts, a move that could impact the gas supply to Europe.
Speaking before a Senate panel Thursday, Assistant Secretary of State
Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, said the United
States has launched a "truth-telling campaign" on Ukraine.

Victoria Nuland: "One cannot match the kind of money and effort in a
closed society that Russia is putting into this, but we can certainly
help our friends and partners debunk lies, get the straight story out.
So we have redirected a great amount of public diplomacy funds to
mounting our own truth-telling campaign."

Nuland was caught on tape earlier this year favoring certain officials
to lead the new Ukrainian government, before President Viktor Yanukoych
was ousted in a coup. Her apparent favorite, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is now
interim prime minister. Yatsenyuk is in Yanukovych's hometown of Donetsk
today in a bid to ease tensions with pro-Russian demonstrators who have
occupied a government building.

 

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