MOSCOW PAPER SEES DIFFICULT TALKS ON BLACK SEA FLEET.

The June 9 Ukrainian-Russian summit meeting in Sochi is unlikely to achieve a breakthrough on the central question of a base for the Black Sea Fleet, Kommersant-Daily said June 6. Indeed, the Ukrainians may very well carry out their threat to declare the fleet a “foreign” force and seek international support in getting it removed from Ukrainian territory, the paper said. In that event, Kiev would “swing even closer to the West.”

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