'..continued Russian aggression..'<blockquote>'Merkel and Steinmeier are facing a Russian leadership that appears to be toying with them .. in a telephone conversation with Merkel, Putin demanded a unilateral cease-fire, which the chancellor then pushed for in Kiev. After Ukrainian leaders finally agreed, Putin allowed pro-Russian rebels to capture several border crossings that have been since been used to facilitate transports of supply replenishments from Russia.
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.."Diplomacy is reaching its limits in the face of continued Russian aggression," says Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn. "It raises the question of whether one can still even achieve anything with Putin through negotiations." Several Eastern European governments have come to similar conclusions.'
- Nikolaus Blome, Christiane Hoffmann, Ralf Neukirch and Christoph Schult,
Failed Diplomacy: NATO Hardliners Push for Firmer Stance against Russia, September 01, 2014 </blockquote>
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'Putin has been deceiving the world since the very beginning of the Ukraine crisis..' - Der Spiegel</blockquote>