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Merkel: Sanctions on Russia Stay Until Fighting Stops in Ukraine


German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine could be lifted only if a cease-fire agreement between Kyiv and the rebels was fully implemented. Speaking in Berlin at a joint news conference with visiting Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Merkel said the agreement signed in Belarus’ capital, Minsk, on September 5 had to be implemented “in all its points” before the sanctions could be lifted. Under the Minsk agreement, both sides agreed to a cease-fire and the withdrawal of fighters and military hardware from areas of eastern …read more

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