NEWSLINK: Ukraine PM says rebel-led regions will never receive funds from Kiev

[“Ukraine PM says rebel-led regions will never receive funds from Kiev” – Reuters – Nov. 5, 2014]

Reuters covers the aftermath in Ukraine of unauthorized would-be local or regional elections held by separatists, and Ukraine’s decision to cut off central government funding of Donetsk and Luhansk until the areas return to government control.

Yatseniuk said the government would ordinarily have paid around 34 billion hryvnia ($2.5 billion) into the local budgets of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014, but these funds would be disbursed only once Ukraine regained control of the territories.

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