Ukraine Backs IMF, Army Bills as OSCE Reaches Crash Site
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Ukraine’s parliament backed bills to keep cash from a $17 billion bailout flowing and maintain funding to the army as an international team reached the site of the Malaysian jet crash for the first time in a week.
Lawmakers in Kiev also rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who’d sought to step down last week after the legislation wasn’t passed. Amid the pro-Russian insurgency in the nation’s east, Ukraine halted combat operations to allow Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitors to get to the scene of the plane disaster after fighting blocked attempts in the last seven days.