Fighters of the Ukrainian National Guard have completed assignment of retaking control at the whole portion of state border in the Donetsk region, spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council Volodymyr Chepovy announced.
Ukrainian ATO (Anti terrorist operation) forces putting more pressure on the pro Russian illegal armed units in Ukraine than ever before.
From the North towards Lugansk and from the South towards Snizhne they are working on regaining control over the several border crossings occupied by rebels.
Their primary goal must is to close the remaining open parts of border with Russia.
Meanwhile they also step up closer to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in the West side.
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council's Volodymyr Chepovy has claimed an epidemiological situation in Sloviansk and water supply problems in a number of populated localities in the Donetsk region.
Reuters: 17. June 2014
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:
EU summit may discuss tougher Russia sanctions
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks at a joint press conference with his Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian counterparts following their meeting focused on security in the Baltic region amid the concern over a resurgent Russia, on June 17, 2014 in Tallinn.
TALLINN (Reuters) - European Union leaders may use their summit next week to discuss the issue of further sanctions against Russia in the context of a deteriorating situation in Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in the Baltic states on Tuesday.
"That might be a debate to be continued at the next meeting of the European heads of state and government," Steinmeier told a news conference in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, after talks with the foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The EU has set clear conditions for ratcheting up economic and diplomatic sanctions against Moscow, Steinmeier said, but he and the Baltic ministers had not reached a clear view in their talks on whether that point had already been reached.
"If Russia is responsible for a lasting destabilization of Ukraine, then further decisions will become unavoidable," said Steinmeier. "We have not conclusively discussed whether we are now in that situation."
The failure of EU-mediated talks on the gas dispute between Kiev and Moscow at the weekend demonstrated that "we are far from a political solution to the Ukraine crisis", he said.
This and the shooting down of a Ukrainian army transport plane by pro-Russian rebels constituted a "real setback for efforts to defuse the crisis", the German minister said.
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