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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift in Tver region, Russia, on Friday. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP hide caption
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift in Tver region, Russia, on Friday.
Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for "meaningful talks" to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, reiterating that the Kremlin, which is said to have allowed thousands of its soldiers to join the rebels, views the situation as an internal dispute.
"Substantive, meaningful talks should begin immediately ... related to the issues of society's political organization and statehood in southeastern Ukraine to protect legitimate interests of people living there," Tass quoted Putin as saying.
Over the weekend, separatists, with the apparent backing of Russian soldiers, captured the city of Novoazovsk in the southern Donetsk region on the coast of the Sea of Azov. As NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports, the move has prompted fears that the city of Mariupol, just west of Novoazovsk, is next in line.
Reuters reports:
The remarks follow an announcement of new European Union sanctions on Russia over its military involvement in Ukraine. The EU said the sanctions, designed to hit a number of sectors of the Russian economy, would go into effect within a week unless Moscow "[withdraws] all its military assets and forces from Ukraine," the European Council said.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko also said Saturday that his nation is
i iRussian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift in Tver region, Russia, on Friday. Mikhail Klimentyev/AP hide caption
itoggle caption Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
<img data-original="http://ift.tt/1tmbkab; title="Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift in Tver region, Russia, on Friday." alt="Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift in Tver region, Russia, on Friday."/>
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe presented him as a gift in Tver region, Russia, on Friday.
Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for "meaningful talks" to end the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, reiterating that the Kremlin, which is said to have allowed thousands of its soldiers to join the rebels, views the situation as an internal dispute.
"Substantive, meaningful talks should begin immediately ... related to the issues of society's political organization and statehood in southeastern Ukraine to protect legitimate interests of people living there," Tass quoted Putin as saying.
Over the weekend, separatists, with the apparent backing of Russian soldiers, captured the city of Novoazovsk in the southern Donetsk region on the coast of the Sea of Azov. As NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports, the move has prompted fears that the city of Mariupol, just west of Novoazovsk, is next in line.
Reuters reports:
"Asked later about Putin's remarks, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk: "This is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine, this is a domestic Ukrainian conflict."
"Pressed on whether Moscow felt that 'Novorossiya' – [or 'New Russia,'] the name the rebels give to the widely Russian-speaking region in dispute - should remain part of Ukraine, Peskov said: 'Of course.'
"'Only Ukraine can reach an agreement with Novorossiya, taking into account the interests of Novorossiya, and this is the only way to reach political settlement,' Peskov said."
The remarks follow an announcement of new European Union sanctions on Russia over its military involvement in Ukraine. The EU said the sanctions, designed to hit a number of sectors of the Russian economy, would go into effect within a week unless Moscow "[withdraws] all its military assets and forces from Ukraine," the European Council said.
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko also said Saturday that his nation is
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