Russia told the West on Wednesday that four-way talks between representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the United States and European Union must focus on fostering dialogue among Ukrainians and not on bilateral relations among the participants.

• Date: 09.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 09.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russian agents and special forces on Tuesday of stirring separatist unrest in eastern Ukraine, saying Moscow could be trying to prepare for military action as it had in Crimea.

• Date: 08.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 08.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The West should take strong action, possibly including sending NATO forces to Ukraine, if Russia tries to annex the eastern part of the country, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Sunday.

• Date: 07.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 07.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Ukraine is in emergency talks with European Union neighbors on the possibility of importing natural gas from the West, following a leap in the price it pays for Russian supplies, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday.

• Date: 04.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 04.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO suspended all practical cooperation with Russia on Tuesday in protest at its annexation of Crimea, and ordered military planners to draft measures to strengthen its defenses and reassure nervous Eastern European countries.

• Date: 02.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks on Sunday about ways to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, with Kerry telling Moscow that progress depended on a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine's borders.

• Date: 31.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 31.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Days before Crimea voted in a referendum to join Russia from Ukraine, Adam, a Chechen soldier, was ordered to go to the Black Sea peninsula to defend Russia's interests.

• Date: 30.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 30.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Lenin looks out on Donetsk, unmoved, anthracite grey and steely eyed. But a century after his revolution, this Ukrainian industrial city of Porsches and poverty seethes around

• Date: 28.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/