Ukraine won't pay pensions and other benefits for residents of regions controlled by pro-Russian separatists, but isn't following through on an earlier threat to cut off gas supplies to the area, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Nov. 5.
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Representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Ravil Khalikov (R) stands in front of a hotel after a meeting in Donetsk on Nov. 5, 2014.
