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Top Western officials visited Kiev on the tenth anniversary of the start of the Maidan protests A cavalcade of high-ranking Western officials paid an unannounced visit to Kiev on Monday, on the tenth anniversary of the start of the violent protests in the Ukrainian capital that eventually plunged the entire country into years of bloody…

The latest loan brings the total in ‘emergency financing’ Kiev has been lent or promised to more than $38 billion Ukraine will receive a $1.2 billion loan from the World Bank which is being guaranteed by the government of Japan, the lender reported.