Ukraine crisis: Moscow threatens to cut gas supplies to Europe in retaliation for sanctions
Furthermore, Putin is determined to build a Russian bloc.Obama, the kumbaya-singing community organizer, is incapable of handling this crisis.
The prospect of a European energy crisis loomed last night as Moscow threatened to impose retaliatory sanctions, and the new Prime Minister of Ukraine said his country could suffer shortages if help was not received from the West.
Russia supplies 30 per cent of Europe's gas and a number of the Baltic states are almost entirely reliant on Russia.
Yesterday, the Russian foreign ministry labelled this week's EU sanctions, in which a further 12 people close to President Vladimir Putin have had their assets frozen and a travel ban imposed, as "divorced from reality".
With both Brussels and Washington now threatening further "targeted measures" this week, Moscow made it clear that it was considering tit-for-tat sanctions. "Russia reserves the right to give an adequate response to the undertaken action," a spokesman said.
Ukraine's Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, highlighted precarious energy supplies during a visit to Berlin, saying gas from the EU might
