Russia has been under US and EU sanctions over its annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine for two years. There is no reason to lift the European Union’s sanctions against Russia as Moscow has not fulfilled all of its commitments under an international peace plan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview published on Friday.Merkel told the RedaktionsNetzwerks Deutschland (RND) that Russia had caused a major crisis by annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014 and with its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.”Europe had to react against this violation of basic principles,” …read more
Source: Pulse Nigeria
