Kiev, April 22 – An international deal to end wider conflict in Ukraine seems to be failing even as there are reports of Russians gun-toting groups active in Ukraine towns. Pro-Moscow separatist gunmen are showing no sign of surrendering government buildings they have seized.
Saying they will hold Moscow responsible, the US and European officials warn it of imposing new economic sanctions if the separatists do not clear out of government buildings they have occupied across swathes of eastern Ukraine over the past two weeks.
Washington, which signed last week’s accord in Geneva along with Moscow, Kiev and the European Union, said it would decide “in days” on additional sanctions if Russia does not take steps to implement the agreement.
Meanwhile, CNN reported that Ukrainian officials point to the pictures in a dossier obtained on Monday, arguing that the images show Russian “sabotage-reconnaissance groups” acting in Ukrainian towns.
The images, Ukrainian officials say, prove organised Russian activity in the region. However, CNN cannot independently confirm the photographs, some of which were first published in The New York Times, the report added.
-INDIA TODAY
