Germany and other countries want European Union leaders to endorse a declaration saying that EU sanctions on Russia will not be eased unless Moscow complies with a Ukraine ceasefire deal, two officials said on Saturday.

• Date: 14.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 14.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

European Union leaders are unlikely to tighten sanctions on Russia when they meet next week but will haggle over whether they need to act now to prolong economic sanctions on Russia expiring in July, diplomats said on Thursday.

• Date: 12.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 12.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States on Wednesday placed sanctions on eight Ukrainian separatists and a Russian bank, warning that recent attacks by rebels armed by Russia violated a European-brokered ceasefire in the war-torn country.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia may ease the terms of its gas supplies to Ukraine but Kiev will have to pay for the gas Moscow is supplying to rebel-held areas of east Ukraine, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Energy  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

The United States announced $75 million in non-lethal aid for Ukraine on Wednesday and placed sanctions on a handful of Ukrainian separatists, a Russian bank and others after accusing Russian-backed rebels of breaking a European-brokered ceasefire.

• Date: 11.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 11.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian tanks and heavy military equipment have crossed the Ukrainian border in the last few days in breach of a European-brokered ceasefire agreed on Feb. 12, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European Council President Donald Tusk and Brussels bureaucrats on Tuesday of stirring up tensions between Moscow and the bloc over the crisis in Ukraine.

• Date: 10.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 10.03.2015  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he ordered officials to start work on taking control of Crimea weeks before a referendum which, the Kremlin has asserted until now, prompted the region's annexation from Ukraine.

• Date: 09.03.2015  |  Published on EGF: 09.03.2015  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/