'Ukraine accused Moscow on Friday of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine despite a European-brokered truce that went into force last Sunday.'<blockquote>'Russia has engaged in an absolutely brazen and cynical process over these last days .. this kind of extraordinarily craven behaviour at the expense of the sovereignty and integrity of a nation.
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..the Ukrainian military .. is bracing for a rebel attack on the port city of Mariupol – the largest city still under government control in the two rebellious eastern provinces.
Kiev military accused Russia on Friday of sending more tanks and troops towards the rebel-held town of Novoazovsk, further east along the Sea of Azov coast from Mariupol, expanding their presence on what it fears could be the next battlefront.
An attack on Mariupol would kill off a European-brokered ceasefire.
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The most senior British military officer in Nato warned on Friday that Russian expansionist ambitions could quickly become “an obvious existential threat to our whole being”.
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, appointed last year as Nato’s deputy commander of forces in Europe, said the alliance needed to develop both fast-reacting conventional forces and capacities to counter Russian efforts at coercion and propaganda, as seen in Ukraine.
Talking of “an era of constant competition with Russia”, Bradshaw told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute on Friday that Nato had to maintain a cohesive system of deterrence on its eastern borders, something that would require help from the EU.
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Ukraine accused Moscow on Friday of sending more tanks and troops into eastern Ukraine despite a European-brokered truce that went into force last Sunday.
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David Cameron has warned Vladimir Putin of “more consequences” if a ceasefire in Ukraine does not hold.
Speaking on a visit to Govan shipyard in Glasgow on Friday, the prime minister said the responsibility for what had happened in Ukraine “lies absolutely squarely with Vladimir Putin and Russia”, and a strong response was needed.'
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'..Russia’s ‘extraordinarily craven behaviour’ in breaching Ukraine ceasefire..' February 21, 2015</blockquote>
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'..a fight for survival waged with no heed to the damage that this struggle is doing both to the well-being and future of Russian society..'Russia - 'I Hold Putin Responsible...' - 'The Payback Will Be Ruthless..'Global Magnitsky Act - '..it is essential that by April 2015 Ukraine should be engaged in a radical reform program that has a realistic chance of succeeding..' - Soros</blockquote>