24.03.2014 - 14:23 [ Reuters ]

Kiev woos oligarchs, bolstering east against Putin

„We have heard here today the very pressing desire that the new Ukraine should be a united Ukraine and that there should be no breakup,“ Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting Akhmetov and steel magnate Serhiy Taruta, Donetsk‘s new governor. He also met Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and praised the „signal“ he sent to easterners in a speech made, significantly, in Russian.