The European Union (EU) will decide this Tuesday on the first sanctions once morest Russia following recognition by Moscow of the independence of the separatist regions of eastern Ukraine, announced the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell. No dispatch of Western troops is however planned on the ground.
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