: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Obama ramps up pressure on Russia after deadly Ukraine blitz


KIEV – US President Barack Obama vowed on Sunday to ramp up pressure on Russia after rocket attacks blamed on Kremlin-backed Ukrainian rebels killed 30 and injured 95 more.Saturday’s surprise assault on the strategic eastern Ukrainian port of Mariupol threatened to open a new front linking separatist territory near the Russian border with the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea that Moscow annexed in March.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told an emergency security meeting that Kiev had intercepted calls confirming Saturday’s barrage was carried out by separatist “terrorists who receive support in Russia”.And Obama said he would now look at all …read more

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