Minister of foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius believes that the European Union countries except the punishment Against the Russian Federation, could be in the form of pressure politically to isolate Moscow to help the settlement of the fall in the Ukraine.

"very many of the levers for influence in the Russian Federation as amended), could be another factor of political isolation. I don't mean tearing all channels, but the signal could also positively influence the situation, " said Linkevicius on the first day of the weekend in Riga, answering the question, what are the levers, in addition to the penalties can involve Brussels to influence Russia to settle the fall in the Ukraine.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation Against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. Against Russia, the West has imposed a series of sanctions, because the Ukrainian Authorities, as well as the USA and the EU many times accused Moscow of interfering in Ukraine. Russia denies it and calls the accusations are unacceptable. Moscow has repeatedly said that is not a party to domestic conflict and uninvolved in the events in the South-East, is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis.

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