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The sanctions against Russia Vladimir Putin anger. The Kremlin leader accuses the USA “blackmail” before – and claims: On conflict in Ukraine Washington is to blame.

On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Asia-Europe Summit (ASEM) in Milan is expected. Advance the Kremlin leader has his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama harshly criticized. Washington was hostile to Russia, Putin complained in a statement that was released by the Presidential Office in Moscow.

“We hope that our partners understand the ruthlessness of blackmail against Russia,” Putin said with regard to international economic sanctions. Everyone must understand that a quarrel between two great nuclear powers have consequences for the stability. He warned of further sanctions. Any attempt to blackmail Russia, only complicates the dialogue.

The conflict in Ukraine, the United States eventually were to blame, claiming the Kremlin leader. “Washington has the Maidan protests actively supported and gave Russia the right to provoke a crisis, as his charges in Kiev mustered with their rabid nationalism significant parts of the Ukraine against him,” said Putin.

Angela Merkel sees it differently: “The decisive contribution to the de-escalation must Russia make” the Chancellor said Thursday morning in her policy statement to the Bundestag. The sanctions are important but also an end in itself. “We unabated still looking for the dialogue with Russia,” she assured her audience. “The one – Penalties – exclude the other – dialogue – not out.”

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The Russian head of state to come together on Friday in Milan with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to talk about a solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. “It has a real opportunity opened, the military confrontations, to stop basically a civil war,” said Putin. A meeting of Putin with Merkel, Renzi, Cameron, Hollande and the EU leaders Barroso, Van Rompuy and Mogherini is scheduled for this Friday in Milan.

Nevertheless, the agreed ceasefire it always comes back to fighting in the Ukraine, several people came only on Wednesday in Mariupol in the fighting life. Also decided by the EU delay of the Partnership Agreement with Ukraine has allied with Putin forces in the east of the country can not appease.

Nevertheless, the Kremlin chief Kiev called for a “internal dialog with the participation of representatives of all regions and all political forces” on. On Saturday, Putin had ordered the removal of more than 17,000 soldiers who were on maneuvers on the border with Ukraine for months.

On Wednesday it was revealed that apparently also a German elite soldier has the pro-Russian separatists connected in eastern Ukraine. Against the paratroopers of the Bundeswehr is determined for desertion.

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