Journalists have different takes at Vladimir Putin's speech at G20:
Russia is ready to restructure Ukraine’s $3-billion debt and allow Kyiv to pay a billion per year in 2016-2018, said Russian President Vladimir Putin today.
In Turkey at the G20 summit, Putin added that Russia expected guarantees from the West about Ukraine’s creditworthiness and that he hoped the issue of restructuring Ukraine’s debt would be solved by the end of the year.
“We made an unexpected offer. We didn’t simply agree on restructuring, but offered better conditions than the International Monetary Fund was asking for,” said the Russian president.
Putin discussed the issues of debt paying guarantees by Ukraine with U.S. President Barack Obama and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, RFE/RL Ukrainian Service reports.
A piece from Ukraine Pravda on the importance of the ag sector to Ukraine's economy:
Ukrainian Airlines says it will continue to fly to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, but will institute additional security measures.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius is in Kyiv.
Winners of the patriotic cartoons contest:
A Radio Svoboda piece on how the low hryvnya is a boon to Ukrainian exporters: