NEWS FLASH: French President Francois Hollande says he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel "will make a new proposal to resolve the conflict" in eastern Ukraine during visits to Kyiv and Moscow this week.
From RFE/RL's News Desk:
European Union members have agreed on a list of additional individuals and entities over the crisis in Ukraine.
Diplomats were quoted as saying on February 5 that an additional 19 people, including five Russian citizens and nine entities, will be targeted by the sanctions.
The names were not immediately available.
But Reuters quoted the diplomats as saying none of the individuals and entities was “very senior or prominent.”
Foreign ministers are to meet in Brussels on February 9 to endorse the list, which adds to a serious of measures and sanctions implemented last year.
On January 29, the ministers agreed to expand the list of those sanctioned and to extend until September an initial EU sanctions list targeting Russians and pro-Russian separatist leaders in Ukraine.
Kerry's arrival to a cold and snowy Kyiv:
Here is today's situation map of eastern Ukraine by the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
VIDEO: The majority of injured separatist fighters from eastern Ukraine are treated in Russia. But their treatment is not always organized officially. In the border regions of Russia, there are informal clinics and rehabilitation centers organized by the separatists. RFE/RL’s Current Time reports from one such center, in the city of Azov.
