Ukraine crisis: Deal to 'de-escalate' agreed in Geneva

GENEVA: -- Russia, Ukraine, the US and the European Union have said that all sides have agreed to steps to "de-escalate" the crisis in eastern Ukraine.

Their foreign ministers were speaking at the end of talks between Russia, Ukraine, the EU and US in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Analysts say the outline agreement could stay economic sanctions the West was preparing to impose on Russia.

Ukraine has been in crisis since its pro-Moscow president was toppled.

Russia then annexed the Crimean peninsula - part of Ukraine but with a Russian-speaking majority population - in a move that provoked international outrage.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27072351


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Good news. Hopefully, things will stabilize.

Actually, not looking so promising.

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In the 1940s, Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera sided, for a time, with the Nazis as he tried to free Ukraine from Soviet Russia. The Germans went on to murder millions of Jews in Ukraine.

The ugly developments came as diplomats meeting in Geneva called for an immediate halt to the violence in eastern Ukraine that is being engineered by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

A skeptical President Obama called the meeting constructive but said he was ready to impose more sanctions on Russia.

My hope is that we actually do see follow-through over the next several days, he said. But I dont think, given past performance, that we can count on that.

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