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Ukraine and Russia faced off in a high-profile dispute at the High Court in London on Jan. 17 to argue a bitterly fought lawsuit focusing on a $3 billion bond on which Kyiv defaulted in 2015.

The debt, issued under English law, was taken out in 2013 under Ukraine’s former government led by Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russia president, shortly before he was ousted in a pro-western uprising.

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