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Ukraine to buy 700,000 tons of American anthracite coal

Ukraine has agreed to a deal to buy coal from the United States for the first time in its history.

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Lena Savchuk 

Press TV, Kiev

Ukraine has agreed to a deal to buy coal from the United States for the first time in its history. The first delivery is expected in September. Washington has described the deal as a means of undercutting the influence of Russia over its European neighbors.

Lena Savchuk has more in this report.