The EU has suspended plans to impose further sanctions on Russia at least until Saturday, when Kiev officials, representatives of Ukraine's Eastern regions, Russia and the EU security agency are set to meet in a bid to negotiate a new ceasefire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukraine. An urgent meeting between the French, Russian Ukrainian and German foreign ministers in Berlin on Wednesday resulted in a package of immediate measures meant to lead to a truce in eastern Ukraine, where violent clashes between Kiev’s military troops and pro-Russian separatists have “escalated dramatically in the past 48 hours”, according to Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
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