KIEV – The UN Security Council will hold a special meeting Monday on the violence in eastern Ukraine after a rocket barrage blamed on Kremlin-backed rebels killed 30 and threatened to open up a new front in the war.US President Barack Obama vowed to ramp up pressure on Russia after Saturday’s assault on Mariupol – the main city standing between separatist territory near the Russian border and the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea that Moscow annexed in March.The deadly assault on the port city came a day after the insurgents pulled out of peace talks and vowed to capture new …read more
Source: AsiaOne
