Russia slams West's support for Ukraine opposition
Russia slams West's support for Ukraine opposition - Yahoo News
MUNICH (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister slammed Western support of Ukraine's opposition,
suggesting Saturday that it is helping fuel the...
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Russia slams West's support for Ukraine opposition
Russia slams West's support for Ukraine opposition - Yahoo News
MUNICH (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister slammed Western support of Ukraine's opposition,
suggesting Saturday that it is helping fuel the escalation of violence.
Ukraine has faced two months of major protests that started after President Viktor Yanukovych
backed off an agreement to deepen ties with the European Union in favor of relations with Moscow.
The protests had been mostly peaceful until mid-January, when demonstrators angered by new antiprotest laws launched violent clashes with police. Three protesters died in the clashes, two of them
from gunshot wounds. Police insist they didn't fire the fatal shots.
At a gathering of the world's top diplomats and defense officials in Munich, Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov took issue with what he said were "prominent European politicians actually
encouraging such actions."
"What does incitement of increasingly violent st
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