The United States, Russia, Ukraine and European Union together called on Thursday for an immediate halt to violence in Ukraine, where Western powers believe Russia is fomenting a pro-Russian separatist movement.

• Date: 17.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 17.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia's Foreign Ministry accused NATO on Thursday of using the crisis in Ukraine to boost its appeal to members and justify its existence by rallying them against an imaginary threat.

• Date: 10.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 10.04.2014  |  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/

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/

Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine's border if it were to decide to carry out an "incursion" into the country and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO's top military commander said on Wednesday.

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

A quarter-century after the fall of the Soviet Union, authoritarian rulers such as Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are showing they can and will defy international norms, suppress dissent and use military force. American policymakers are struggling with how to respond.

• Date: 01.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2014  |  Security  |  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/