The United States and European Union imposed fresh sanctions on Russia yesterday due to (what they say is_ Moscow´s “unacceptable behaviour” in Ukraine.
Moscow responded by accusing its foes of seeking to derail the peace push aimed at halting a conflict that has killed more than 2,700 people across Ukraine´s industrial heartland.
Late night yesterday Russian news agencies reported that Russia´s border officials had waved through the first 35 vehicles in an aid convoy heading for a devastated east Ukraine, after Moscow sent in a first convoy in August without Ukraine´s final approval or Red Cross monitors.
While the guns have largely fallen silent after five months of fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, the rhetoric in the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War has just grown louder.
