EU sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine should stay in place as long the situation on the ground does not improve, Lithuania’s foreign minister said on Monday, dismissing calls from EU’s rotating president Slovakia for them to be lifted.
The European Union imposed energy, financial and defense sanctions on Moscow after it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in March 2014 and agreed in June to extend them until the end of January.
Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, called on the EU to end the sanctions after meeting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, saying they had harmed both the EU and Russia but …read more
Source: Voice of America
