U.S. to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies | Reuters.
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions onRussia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.
The United States and the 28-nation European Union have both imposed sanctions on Russia’s financial, defense and energy sectors over Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its support for the separatists in eastern Ukraine.
But EU diplomats say there is little appetite within the bloc for more sanctions unless there is a further sharp deterioration of the situation in Ukraine. Russia is Europe’s leading energy supplier and many EU countries fear the sanctions and Russian reprisals could hurt their own economies.
“There are continuing conversations with the EU about continuing to expand sanctions,” said a senior U.S. State Department official accompanying Kerry to a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.
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