Warnings that Putin decision to send troops and armour risks spiralling into all-out conflictEuropean leaders gathered in Brussels on Saturday night to wrestle with how to get a failing policy on Ukraine back on track, amid fears that Vladimir Putin’s campaign in the east of the country could spiral into full-scale war.The summit was formally called to wrangle over who should get the top jobs in the EU for the next five years, but emergency meetings between Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, and European leaders underlined how the gathering was hijacked by fears of war on the EU’s eastern flank. … …read more
Source: The Guardian