German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine could be lifted only if a cease-fire agreement between Kyiv and the rebels was fully implemented. Speaking in Berlin at a joint news conference with visiting Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Merkel said the agreement signed in Belarus’ capital, Minsk, on September 5 had to be implemented “in all its points” before the sanctions could be lifted. Under the Minsk agreement, both sides agreed to a cease-fire and the withdrawal of fighters and military hardware from areas of eastern …read more
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