Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has taken steps to permanently block supplies of Caspian oil via Ukraine’s Odessa-Brody pipeline to the European Union, a top official at President Viktor Yushchenko’s office said.
Maryna Stavniychuk, a deputy chief of staff at the Yushchenko office, said Tymoshenko loyalists filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court seeking to block Yushchenko’s order starting Caspian oil supplies.
“According to my information, the appeal has been submitted by Tymoshenko lawmakers,” Stavniychuk said at a press conference.
UEFA President Michel Platini urged the international community to back Ukraine and Poland in organizing Euro 2012 despite doubts the ex-communist states, especially Ukraine, are able to do so, Reuters reported.
Platini said such public support was vital "in order to implement the democratic decision made by the UEFA executive committee to hold Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine".
Ukraine's president declared Monday a three-month state of emergency in western Ukraine, where 22 people, including six children, have been killed by floods in the past week.
More than 40,000 homes have been flooded and thousands of people evacuated as a result, according to the Ukrainian emergencies ministry.
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