Ukraine says it had been forced to use reserves to maintain the pressure needed to move gas to European consumers before the valves were closed.

乌克兰说，他们被迫动用天然气储备来维持管道阀门被关闭前向欧洲的顾客运送天然气所必需的压力。

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One year-old hippopotamus Lucie enjoys chomping on hay before being transported from the Safari Park in Ramat Gan in Israel to a zoo in Ukraine.

一只一岁大的河马将从以色列的拉马丹野生动物园转运到乌克兰的动物园，临行前，它开心地嚼着干草。

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The frog lay in wait in a lake near Chernigov, Ukraine, for the fisherman to get a bite before pouncing on the fish in his homemade net.

这只蛙在乌克兰契尔尼戈夫附近的一个湖里蹲守，等渔夫从他自制的网里掏鱼之前先吃点东西的时刻。

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He says he wants a new law criminalising Holodomor denial - and to see new monuments to the famine built in Ukraine before the end of the year's commemorations.

BBC: Ekaterina Marchenko is insistent.

Hitzfeld has retained nine of the players taken by predecessor Koebi Kuhn to the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where the Swiss reached the last 16 before losing to Ukraine in a penalty shoot-out.

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The charges against the FC Tavriya management were made before Uefa announced that Ukraine would be hosting the 2012 championships.

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