Russia says Ukraine has violated loan terms, no decision on repayment - agencies


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  • Saturday, 10 Jan 2015

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko holds a pen as he honours the victims of the shooting by two Islamist gunmen at the Paris offices of the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, outside the French embassy in Kiev January 9, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine has violated the terms of a $3 billion Russian loan but Moscow has not yet decided whether to demand early repayment, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was quoted on Saturday as saying.

Russia lent the money in December 2013 by buying Ukrainian Eurobonds, two months before Ukraine's then-president, the pro-Moscow Viktor Yanukovich, fled the country amid mass protests against his rule.

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