'..encouraging the IMF to exercise political caution.'<blockquote>'According to a report delivered recently to the Chancellery in Berlin by Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, the Ukrainian army is slowly disintegrating, demoralized by the separatist advances and short on personnel. Even arms deliveries from the West, the BND believes, would be more likely to overwhelm the Ukrainian army than it would to make it a more effective fighting force.
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..Chancellor Merkel has thus charged her economic policy advisor Lars-Hendrik Röller with encouraging the IMF to exercise political caution. "The aid program cannot be allowed to destabilize Ukraine domestically," said one government official in Berlin.
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The War Next Door: Can Merkel's Diplomacy Save Europe? February 14, 2015</blockquote>
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Global Magnitsky Act - '..it is essential that by April 2015 Ukraine should be engaged in a radical reform program that has a realistic chance of succeeding..' - Soros</blockquote>