Obama Poised for New Sanctions on Russia If No Progress on Ukraine

NEWSMAX / REUTERS: …Under an international accord signed in Geneva last week, illegal armed groups in Ukraine, including the pro-Russian rebels occupying about a dozen public buildings in the east of the country, are supposed to disarm and go home…

“So far at least we have seen them not abide by the spirit or the letter of the agreement in Geneva,” [President Barck] Obama said of the Russian leadership on a visit to Japan.

“We have prepared for the possibility of applying additional sanctions,” he told a news conference. “There’s always the possibility that Russia, tomorrow, or the next day, reverses its course and takes a different approach.”… (more)

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