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Ukraine’s bonds dropped to the lowest in a month and the hryvnia weakened after Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said yesterday’s vote was too close to call as opposition leader Victor Yanukovych claimed victory. Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Ukraine’s bonds dropped to the lowest in a month and the hryvnia weakened after Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko said yesterday’s vote was too close to call as opposition leader Victor Yanukovych claimed victory. The country’s dollar-denominated bonds due 2012 fell 0.4 percent to 91.323 cents on the dollar at 12:36 p.m. in Kiev, the lowest level since Jan. 14, lifting the yield to 10.606 percent from 10.397. The hryvnia weakened 0.5 percent for the first day in four, to 8.0700 per dollar. Read the story here.