NATO Secretary General urges Russia to stop supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to end its support of separatists in eastern Ukraine.
"Russia provides support for the separatists, by providing them with heavy equipment, advanced weapons, forces and training," he said prior to an informal meeting of European Union Defense Ministers in Riga.
According to Stoltenberg, OSCE monitors are not able to monitor the ceasefire.
"I urge Russia to withdraw all its forces from eastern Ukraine, to stop all its support for the separatists and to respect the Minsk agreements and to also use all its influence on the separatists to make them respect the ceasefire," Stoltenberg said.
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