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Monday, 17 April 2017

Trump's complicity in Idlib gas attack

Breaking: VT Hit with Stuxnet as Trump’s Complicity in Gas Attack is Confirmed (vital update)

VT ready to expose US Planning behind Idlib Gas Attack

16 April, 2017
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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

FLASH

Intelligence intercepts confirm that the White House working with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Turkey as well, have moved a supply of chemical weapons into Damascus for a planned attack, scheduled for approximately 2AM New York (GMT +5), April 16, 2017.

If there is an attack in the Damascus region that comes anywhere near this, it will be time to take things to a whole new level.g

Exclusive: Syria’s response to US sponsored Aleppo terror bombing below:

As I write this, bodies are strewn across a road in Aleppo province as an evacuation of residents of two towns besieged by US-backed rebels, almost all foreign mercenaries now, were hit by a car bomb. We await the “tweeter” to talk about these babies. But what about those other babies – did they die, and if they did, was Trump himself the one to give the order?
This story is why VT was hit with Stuxnet, Trump’s cyber nuclear-option in bringing VT down, so this story would not be out on the huge news day yesterday. Losing this story on the Easter Weekend was critical – learn why. See what Trump is laughing about, and if you don’t think he is that kind of person, you simply haven’t been paying attention. Direct from VT Syria on the scene:

Syria’s statement, exclusive to VT:
As human beings prepare to celebrate the day of Jesus’ resurrection (peace be upon him), the savage terrorist gangs of Islamic Jihad and the Takfiris commit a cowardly terrorist act against convoys carrying civilians attributed to Kafria and Faua within the four cities agreement.
These terrorist gangs are supported by the hawks of the American administration headed by Trump and his religious Zionist brother-in-law Kouchner … These savage murderers who carried out this terrorist act were the ones who defended them, Mr. Trump, and bombed Syria for them …
Where is your daughter who cried on the fabricated pictures of these pictures … O shame, we have not heard a single condemnation from the civilized world of these savage Indian acts because they are partners with them.

بينما تتهيأ البشر للاحتفالىبيوم قيامة المسيح (عليه السلام ) ترتكب العصابات الإرهابية المتوحشة الإسلامية الجهادية التكفيرية بعمل إرهابي جبان ضد القوافل التي تقل المدنيين العزا من كفريا والفوعة ضمن اتفاق المدن الاربعة….
إن هذه العصابات الإرهابية مدعومة من صقور الإدارة الأمريكية برئاسة ترامب وصهره الصهيوني المتدين كوشنير … هؤلاء القتلة المتوحشين الذين من نفذوا هذا العمل الإرهابي هم من دافعت عنهم يا سيد ترامب وقصفت سورية من أجلهم …
أين هي ابنتك التي بكت على صور مفبركة من هذه الصور …
يا للعار لم نسمع إدانة واحدة من العالم المتحضر لهذه الاعمال الإراهبية المتوحشة لأنهم شركاء بها.

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Sources in the White House tell us that Trump, aided by CIA Director Mike Pompeo and in coordination with Israel, Qatar and Turkey, staged the Idlib gas attack, sending in film crews. Our sources on the ground in Syria also say that chlorine gas was brought in.

Two Peugeot “Alaska” pickup trucks with Turkish license plates offloaded a shipment of chlorine gas into the offices of Turkish intelligence in Khan Sheikhoun, which they share with al Qaeda. We have it all, Pompeo’s fake report, eaten alive by an MIT scientist:

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There is no proof that Trump’s team – which included White Helmets, al Jazeera and Reuters film teams, these groups have long worked with ISIS and al Qaeda inside Syria, and Turkish intelligence – actually killed local residents.

We know they shot much more film than was shown; and while they were there, over a period of four days, shot footage at various locations, hired extras, used smoke machines and did lots of running back and forth, reshooting scenes carrying children who were given “crips” or potato chips as reward.

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In previous attacks, according to Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, children were drugged in order to be convincingly photographed and killed by film teams using brutal medical techniques.

Swedish Doctors For Human Rights (swedhr.org) analysed videos, the rescue after an alleged attack by Syrian government forces. The doctors found that the videos were counterfeit, where even Arabic stage directions were overheard, and that the alleged “Rescue”, in actuality, is a murder. On first analysis, it looked as though the doctors working on the child assumed he was already dead.

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The latest attack on VT physically took out servers, this time far more severe than the first server attack. VT is at war with a government it seems; President Trump has ordered us destroyed and now has the Department of Homeland Security questioning staff and working to cut off our White House sources.
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We have maimed the Trump presidency, or so he believes. Imagine that. We begin today with Syria, and then return home to Washington, though it is no longer a “home” Americans can be proud of; perhaps it hasn’t been since that day in 1963, but that is a story too often told, though best not forgotten.

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It was three days ago when I interviewed the team, working as truck drivers for an NGO, that were in Khan Sheikhoun during the gas attack and after. Their briefing went to President Assad, but only after they stopped at the only safe haven in Damascus and gave us our story. We are putting the 23-minute interview here, and we can assure you, as much as anyone can be trusted anymore, that Assad is dealing with the only existing evidence.
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When we questioned the insane narrative the MSM and Trump, now “brothers in arms” as we had warned all along, we were taken down by cyber attacks from Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, the US Army Cyber Command.
Our sources at the White House are angry, and leak everything now. You see, the joint chiefs, even while we face war with North Korea and half the world, could be out playing golf with Trump like he does almost every day. The White House doesn’t just have visitors to keep secret, they have two dozen employees there, not just the white queen of war, Ivanka and her Kosher-nostra husband. The mob has moved into the White House, they oversee day to day operations of the US government.
They do this, they have had to – they don’t trust Trump. Even they say he is insane. His daughter was moved there to keep track of him, keep him busy, even though it is likely to send her fashion empire into a tailspin and her kids into reform school and a life of crime, which is of course the Kushner family way.
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Why VT is Silenced

Our exposé on the White Helmets caught Trump’s attention. Trump advisor Steve Bannon had always hated them and, as we had stated before, Trump had also. But what we didn’t know is the whole story behind the Idlib attack. Both Syria and Russia screwed themselves by failing to share intelligence. Both know little about handing the press or managing fake news. Hell, RT and Sputnik news are two of the most penetrated news organizations on the planet.

Finally, Syria and Russia decided to say that Syria may have hit a chemical weapons storage facility, which caused the deaths. This was a fake story, but it was perhaps less fake than the other one. I had actually advised them, (and we do that here from time to time), that if they were going to make things up, to at least stay on the same page. This was a “white lie,” because Syria didn’t actually gas anyone, and some story is better than no story – or is it? We will see.

Four days in advance, we had received a warning that this attack would occur. I had gone to “assets” in Syria and asked them to check on an NGO (Google Idea Groups) that was sending gas masks and other protective equipment into Syria, intended for Homs and Damascus. This is where we expected the attacks to come. President Putin had this same intelligence and may have prevented these attacks as well when he announced, in an interview on Russian television, that he knew they had been planned.

Then again, with gas in place and film crews onsite, they may come also, but only after whatever happens in Korea transpires so they don’t interfere with a managed news cycle. Managing news, even to the point of phony missile attacks and sending the fleet to rocket North Korea is cover for what is going on in Washington – a civil war.

Short as possible, this is why the change in policy. Frankly speaking, Trump was right on the money when he called out the media and Hillary Clinton for her policies on Russia and Syria. Trump was right, and these moments of clarity from a man utterly insane, were the bright spots in his rhetoric. He did notice, and from time to time says things that border on brilliance.

What he wasn’t entirely aware of is where this hatred of Putin comes from. Syria is still all about Putin, as it’s just the southern flank of the Ukraine NATO invasion. Trump was unaware, and to an extent Putin was also, that Israel, not so much the nation but as the virtual home of a plan for global destabilization and subjugation, and this is exactly what I mean, was orchestrating events.

Putin had drawn the ire of the Kosher-nostra – a massive, global, organized crime ring that infiltrated the CIA in steps, beginning with Reagan, and as the Soviet Union fell apart, their massive security apparatus was unleashed on the world much as something out of a James Bond film. One of their targets was Donald Trump, a bankrupt Manhattan “celeb-buffoon” with powerful political connections.

As the CIA moved from destabilizing Poland, and into Russia, they began looking for allies. The KGB was perfect for them, and the CIA began smuggling vital goods, like Marlboro cigarettes, into Russia and to the KGB. The CIA first took over key border crossings, partnered with the KGB; and then together they brought Russia’s bankers to the US. There they met with GOP officials and crossed the aisle to the Democrats as well – partnering with the Greek mafia, whose candidate Michael Dukakis was defeated by Reagan. Those behind Dukakis controlled key banking capabilities in Cyprus and New York; and organizations like the Alfa Bank, Trump’s private cash cow tied to the Russian mob, would flood the US with looted Russian funds.

I personally sat in on many of these conferences and made introductions. Think about where George Tenet came from? There are things even I am unwilling to put in print. Now back to our story.
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Did Trump Order the Attack?

Here is what we know. Steve Bannon made sure Trump knew that the 2013 Ghouta gas attack was staged by Turkish intelligence. Our stories on that were dead on, and it was VT that blackmailed the Obama administration into backing off. It all began unraveling for Tel Aviv when they lost a submarine used to land and retrieve commando units that placed radio repeaters, which were used to created the SIGINT traffic America so loves to have before bombing the innocent.

The Pentagon and Israel have a strong partnership in things like this, as American army officers are regular visitors to Israel, where their every sick desire is satisfied. Israel is the Pentagon’s private whorehouse, though Israel looks at things, rightly so, the other way around. Now they have Mar a Lago, where according to food and sanitation inspectors reports, they are taking their lives into their hands. Mar a Lago is filthyн.

Trump needed to spin relations around. This is key; he is increasingly aware he is becoming unstable. He can’t stop the continual fantasies, the bizarre lies, the embarrassing mannerisms that Americans are sick of. Nobody can look at him anymore. Trump knows he is out of control and that his “base” of hillbillies and biker-gang types – all he had left after a series of epic fails – left him open for impeachment.

A president is impeached when he is no longer of use to the political party he serves and its masters – big oil, big pharma, big polluters and Wall Street and, above all, world organized crime, who we are now increasingly aware had their hooks into Hillary as well, though to a lesser extent. Hillary still had domestic programs. This is a story we need to get into further and will.
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Trump’s Lying Not a Problem, That He Told the Wrong Lies…

You can’t oversimplify some of the story enough, which is in some ways refreshing. Trump was telling the truth about Russia and Syria and, as pressure and workload built up, he became more and more agitated, and with that crazier and crazier. His accusations against Obama over wiretapping and so much else were based on things he saw on TV the night before and had to rush to “tweet-time” before his mind rushed to something else.

Trump is like one of those people who see something on TV and that last idea is so powerful, so all consuming, that they have to run with that; every new thing is “the thing;” every new thing is always “huuuge.” Calling this mind disordered is generous. From Dr. Marcia Purse, a board-certified psychiatrist:

While bipolar disorder is generally considered to be a mood disorder, symptoms can also include disorders of thought—particularly during manic episodes. People in a manic state may have a difficult time filtering out meaningful versus non-meaningful input, and may thus respond to their environment in surprising ways. Ordinary sensory input, such as the sound of traffic or blinking lights, may become severely distracting, focusing attention on nonessential information.

Racing Thoughts and Flights of Ideas With Maia

During manic episodes, it is not unusual for bipolar people to experience “racing thoughts” and “flight of ideas.” These two associated symptoms involve extremely rapid thought processes that, in some cases, leap from topic to topic at incredible speed. Racing thoughts and flight of ideas are also common symptoms of schizophrenia and, in some cases, ADHD.

If you aren’t seeing this, you aren’t paying attention. Add to this a lack of empathy and frequently tossing the term “psychopath” around, and we get closer to home. At the root of this is Trump’s mental instability and a need to put him “on task” as a lovable Russia hater and “Nixonesque mad bomber.” Trump, a man with no feelings or conscience, a con man and thief his entire life – according to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Snopes says no, but Bloomberg really said this, and so much more) – had to start telling the wrong lies.

For Trump this was easy, like any rat, he can abandon ideas, beliefs, anything, even family members, certainly his country, if saving his own skin is at stake; and Trump’s skin is at risk. Trump has also made his move against Russia tied to Netanyahu’s readiness to join the Saudi-Jordanian military move against Southern Syria, a military force to which Trump has added a squadron of American F16s and dozens of Abrams tanks. Forty of them were spotted on the Syrian border yesterday – American flags overhead, guns pointing north toward Damascus.
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Phony Media War

We are also seeing that Trump’s war with CNN and the Guardian has been an act, all staged to run harmless anti-Trump op-ed material, so that the real problems, his cash settlements for brutal rapes and criminal frauds, or his horrific mob ties are kept out of the press, while the “liberal press” bashes him for playing too much golf.

Even Russia Today takes part in this. They are, at times anyway, an embarrassment.

When we put this with the Russia thing – the hacked election, the meetings, the payoffs – we come to another conclusion. We think now that all of this was a setup as well – that Trump’s gang, Sessions, Monfort, Kushner, Flynn all ran to Russia to provide a cover and deception operation for Trump’s real ties to the anti-Putin Kosher-nostra mafia, the gang he is setting up in the White House to run America. Trump is now protected by a 5th Supreme Court vote and can’t be impeached – the court will simply stop it.

Consider the constitution trashed. It was bent and bruised beyond recognition anyway, with Citizens United, reapportioning and gerrymandering, congress placing itself above the law, and even the over 100-year-old illegal Federal Reserve.

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Russia has information of a potential incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb, President Vladimir Putin said. The goal is to discredit the government of Syrian President Assad, he added.

We have reports from multiple sources that false flags* like this one – and I cannot call it otherwise – are being prepared in other parts of Syria, including the southern suburbs of Damascus. They plan to plant some chemical there and accuse the Syrian government of an attack,” he said at a joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella in Moscow.

Damascus denied the allegations, noting that the targeted area may have been hosting chemical weapons stockpiles belonging to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) or Al-Nusra Front jihadists.

The incident has not been properly investigated as yet, but the US fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in a demonstration of force over what it labeled a chemical attack by Damascus.

President Mattarella and I discussed it, and I told him that this reminds me strongly of the events in 2003, when the US representatives demonstrated at the UN Security Council session the presumed chemical weapons found in Iraq. The military campaign was subsequently launched in Iraq and it ended with the devastation of the country, the growth of the terrorist threat and the appearance of Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS] on the world stage,” he added.

It was the first time the US had targeted Syrian troops deliberately. The White House says it will repeat military action in response to any possible new chemical weapon attacks.

The sight of people being gassed and blown away by barrel bombs ensures that if we see this kind of action again, we hold open the possibility of future action,” spokesman Sean Spicer said Monday.

Putin reiterated the call to properly investigate what happened in Khan Sheikhoun, saying that the alleged use of chemical weapons demands one.

We are planning to address the corresponding UN structure in The Hague and call on the international community to thoroughly investigate all those reports and take appropriate action based on the results of such a probe,” he said.

A separate report of a potential false flag** operation in Syria came from the Russian General Staff, which said militants were transporting toxic agents into several parts of Syria, including Eastern Ghouta, the site of the 2013 chemical weapons incident.

These actions are aimed at creating a new pretext for accusing the government of Syria of more chemical weapons attacks and provoking more strikes by the US,” said Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, the head of Operations.

*During the press conference Putin used the Russian word ‘провокации’, which literally translates as ‘provocations’. In this story the term ‘false flag’ is used for clarification and due to the specific context given by the president later in the quote.


Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Ukraine Halts Russian Gas Purchases

Ukraine Halts Russian Gas Purchases After Price Talks Fail


Reuters / Gleb Garanich


30 June 2015

It has been a bad day for deals and deadlines all around: first Greece is about to enter July without a bailout program and in default to the IMF with the ECB about to yank its ELA support or at least cut ELA haircuts; also the US failed to reach a nuclear deal with Iran in a can-kicking negotiation that has become so farcical there is no point in even covering it; and now moments ago a third June 30 "deal" failed to reach an acceptable conclusion when Russia and Ukraine were unable to reach an agreement on gas prices at talks in Vienna on Tuesday. As a result, Ukraine is suspending its purchase of Russian gas.

According to RT, Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak and Ukraine’s Energy and Coal Minister Vladimir Demchishin both admitted to reporters that the negotiations had born no fruit. Demchishin added that there would be a new round of talks in September.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s energy company, Naftogaz, will stop buying gas from Russia as of Wednesday, July 1.

As of June 30, 2015, the agreement between Naftogaz and Gazprom runs out, and conditions for continued supply of Russian gas to Ukraine have not been agreed upon; Naftogaz will no longer be purchasing gas from the Russian company,” a press release by Naftogaz said.

The Russian minister seemed unhappy and said it was politically motivated and there were no grounds for it.

So what will prevent Ukraine from simply siphoning off Russian gas transiting its territory for Europe? Nothing, except its word: 

Naftogaz gave assurances that “the transit of Russian gas through Ukrainian territory to Gazprom’s European clients will continue in full, according to contracts agreed.”

Russia will not increase the discount it has offered to Ukraine on gas purchases, Novak told the media. “The price of $247 [per cubic meter of gas] is completely uncompetitive, that is why we are very surprised that Ukraine wants a much lower price – it is out of line with the current market environment.” He stressed that the price “is not subject to correction.”

Ironically, even as Kiev will begin counting down the days until the winter, Russia will continue direct supplies of gas to Ukraine’s southeast, the Donbas separatist region which has been all but forgotten by the Ukraine capital due to the ongoing civil war on location. It has been doing so since February, when Kiev claimed that it could no longer supply gas to the conflict-torn regions due to damaged pipelines.

While Gazprom insists that Kiev is still responsible for paying for the gas that goes to Donbas, it probably should not hold its breath.

Incidentally, just like the Eurogroup launched shock treatment on Greece with capital controls first and shortly deposit haircuts, all in order to force the Greek government to resign by peaceful means or otherwise, the Kiev government, just as broke and about to default on its own bonds, may have just lit the fuse under its own cabinet, because while nobody needs heating in the summer when it is hot, in 5 months it will get very cold and as Greece has shown a desperate people are unpredictable.

Should the gas cutoff continue well into the cold winter, it just may be the catalyst that forces the revulsion against a regime that has so far done the bidding of the US State Department, if not so much its own people.



Saturday, 17 January 2015

Nuland and Kerry in Sofia

Earlier this year the US threatened Bulgaria with Maidan 2.0 if they didn’t obey; next Bulgaria commits economic harikiri and pulls out of the South Stream, and Russia agrees a new pipeline with Turkey.


Now, not only Kerry, but Victoria Nuland, the witch of the State Department, are both in Sofia.

You end ‘energy dependence’ on Russia, and we frack in your country”


Kerry to Bulgaria: End energy dependence on Russia




15 January, 2015

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Bulgaria to end its dependence on Russia for energy.

John Kerry made the remarks on Thursday in meetings with Bulgaria's president, prime minister and foreign minister in the capital Sofia.

Bulgaria must move toward "diversifying supplies and distribution and increasing connectivity with neighbors," Kerry told a news conference with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

He said Washington is interested in helping the country take "practical steps to enhance energy security in Bulgaria and across Europe."

Kerry also talked about the possible construction of a natural gas pipeline from Greece and moving ahead with a stalled contract with Westinghouse Electric Co. to build a nuclear power plant.

"We hope very much that the issues that (the government and Westinghouse) are discussing can be quickly resolved," Kerry said.

Kerry, however, stressed that the US push is not aimed at Russia.

"That is not directed against any one country," Kerry said. "It is simply a reality. No country in the world should be totally dependent for its energy supply on one other country. We need diversified supplies across the world."

He said the US will send its special energy envoy to Sofia to look into how the US Export-Import Bank could finance the country.

Bulgaria relies on Russia for 85 percent of its gas and 100 percent of its nuclear power.

On security issues, Kerry said the US is determined in its commitment to defend NATO member Bulgaria if it is attacked.

The US would increase joint military exercises with Bulgaria and also help the country modernize its defenses, Kerry said.



Saturday, 6 December 2014

Ukraine: the reality of winter bites

Debt-ridden Ukraine buys 1 bcm of Russian gas as winter gains force

Ukraine's gas importer Naftogaz says it has paid $378 million to Gazprom for 1 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to be delivered in December, as Kiev starts to feel the winter frost.


A picture shows a partial view of a compressor station of Ukraine's Naftogaz national oil and gas company near the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. (AFP Photo/Sergey Bobok)

RT,
5 December 2014


Naftogaz Ukraine has transferred $378 million to [Russia's energy giant] Gazprom in prepayment for deliveries of 1 billion cubic meters of gas," a statement released late on Friday said.

In June, after Ukrainian energy giant had failed to pay a $5.3 billion gas debt accumulated over months of getting fuel from Russia, Gazprom switch to a prepayment system. Kiev was refusing to pay the price under a standing contract, saying it was too high.
The volatile situation intensified fears among EU consumers of Russian gas that Ukraine would exploit its position of transit country and start siphoning off the pipeline in the winter months.
In late October, Ukraine, Russia and the European Union reached an interim agreement to ensure Ukraine's gas supply until March 2015. According to the deal, Kiev must pay Russia a total of $3.1 billion by the end of 2014 in order to cover part of its outstanding debt that Kiev acknowledges as rightful. In early November, Naftogaz transferred the first $1.45 billion tranche.
According to the October deal, Russia must restart the flow to Ukraine within 48 hours of receiving prepayment.

With the start of the winter season in late October, Ukraine's gas reserved have depleted by 17 percent falling to 13.9 billion cubic meters as of December 1, according to data from Ukrtransgaz, Naftogaz’s transport subsidiary. Ukraine’s national gas corporation is in a financial tight spot at the moment. The company's deficit is some 52 percent larger than that of Ukraine itself, the country’s PM warned on Wednesday.

I’m worried more about Naftogaz’s deficit, which is larger than the overall deficit of [Ukraine’s] national budget. The state budget today is 68 billion hryvnas ($4.4 billion), and the deficit of Naftogaz, which we financed because the tariffs didn’t correspond with the market price for gas, is 103 billion hryvnas ($6.7 billion),” Arseny Yatsenyuk said.

Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko

But the two budgets are not as separated as one might think. For instance, the $1.45 billion payment to Gazprom in November to cover the gas debt was footed by the Ukrainian central bank. This payment was one of the reasons why the Ukrainian national currency reserve dropped by $2.62 billion to $9.97 billion that month, according to the latest report.


Naftogaz budgetary problems are to a large degree result of its obligation to supply gas to some consumers regardless of whether they pay for it or not and at a lower than market price. Ukraine has been allowing this for years as a de facto form of government aid to poorer people and some industrial consumers.
In September, an IMF report said that Ukraine's plans to overcome Naftogaz’s deficit by 2018 will be difficult. To achieve this Naftogaz, according to Kiev's calculations, has to have a debt of no more than 4.3 percent of GDP in 2014 and 1.9 percent in 2015. But IMF calculations, point to a negative dynamic with company's deficit amounting to 10 percent GDP by the end of 2014.

Getting a hold on the budget deficit – both within the government and key state-owned companies like Naftogaz – is a requirement IMF put forward to allow further loans to Ukraine. It also demanded a hike in utility prices, which the Yatsenyuk government is currently putting into place. The measures are causing understandable irritation among the Ukrainian population, who are not thrilled to see their bills skyrocket amid an economic slowdown plaguing the country.