EU countries are to expand their Russia and Ukraine blacklists and to send a small team of security experts to Kiev.
The decision, by foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday (14 April), came after pro-Russian separatists seized local government buildings, erected barricades and beat up pro-Ukranian activists in nine cities in east and south Ukraine in recent days.
US and EU diplomats had previously said the heavily-armed separatists are Russian forces in disguise.
But th...
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