By Lesley Wroughton
US Secretary of State John Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions on Russia if pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.
The United States and the 28-nation European Union have both imposed sanctions on Russia’s financial, defence and energy sectors over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
“There are continuing conversations with the EU about continuing to expand sanctions,” said a senior U.S. State Department official accompanying Kerry to a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on …read more
Source: Cyprus Mail
