Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine: Kerry
17 Oct 2014 5:04 AM IST
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said Russian troops were beginning to pull back from Ukraine but warned Moscow still needed to do more to see sanctions eased, as deadly shelling continued to undermine a fragile ceasefire.
Following more than three hours of talks with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Kerry laid down a series of conditions to lift sanctions over the crisis that has brought relations between the two to the lowest ebb since the Cold War.
‘And at this point... many of them are happening now. The troops are pulling back, (but) the heavy equipment still has to be pulled back and the border is yet to be properly monitored and secured,’ Kerry told reporters in Paris.
Following more than three hours of talks with Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Kerry laid down a series of conditions to lift sanctions over the crisis that has brought relations between the two to the lowest ebb since the Cold War.
‘And at this point... many of them are happening now. The troops are pulling back, (but) the heavy equipment still has to be pulled back and the border is yet to be properly monitored and secured,’ Kerry told reporters in Paris.
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