KIEV: Cash-strapped Ukraine promised on Friday to make the next payment on a disputed Russian loan it had threatened to stop servicing due to Moscow's rejection of more lenient terms.

The decision should help ease some of the tensions building between the two neighbours throughout Ukraine's 14-month separatist revolt that Kiev accuses Moscow of staging -- a charge Russia denies.

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