U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed “grave concern” to his Russian counterpart about a “sharp rise” in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine.
A senior State Department official told reporters in Washington on Thursday that in a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Kerry urged “an immediate cease-fire” and called for “full implementation” of the cease-fire agreement reached between Ukraine’s government and Russia-backed separatists in Minsk, Belarus, this year.
More than 6,500 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the fighting erupted in April 2014, and there has been another spike in violence in recent days. The two …read more
Source: Voice of America
