United Nations envoy Nikki Haley criticises Russian aggression in Ukraine

Trump has, to the dismay of US Republican and Democratic leaders, been sympathetic toward Putin during and after the presidential election.

“Ukrainian intelligence has detected an increase in the number of armoured vehicles, ammunition, weapons and Russian soldiers that have reached the occupied territory of Donbas via uncontrolled stretches of the border”, said Oleksandr Turchynov, the secretary of Ukraine’s national security and defence council. “Stop shooting now!”, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine posted on Twitter.

Instead of “searching sensible compromises” to end the conflict, the envoy stressed, Kiev is “pressing for a military solution”.

Those changes, which came days after President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, would allow USA companies to engage in transactions with the agency, and are allegedly meant to make selling mobile devices like phones and tablets easier.

Russian Federation and Ukraine along with the rebels on Wednesday signed up to calls for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the flashpoint town Avdiivka by Sunday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, for his part, blamed the Ukrainian government for the latest violence, saying he believed the government sparked the fighting as a “ploy” to try to convince the new USA administration into publicly supporting them.

“For the people in eastern Ukraine, the stakes are high”.

Ukrainian Ambassador Vlodymyr Yelchenko said Russian Federation blocked fix work to restore electricity to Avdiivka.

“Frankly speaking, we stopped counting number of shelling”. Heavy shelling affected residence areas and the town is cut off from electricity, heating and water. AFP reporters have witnessed the rebels on the attack.

Churkin said the Trump administration is just in its early days and both countries are dealing with very hard problems.

The monitoring mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation In Europe described the escalation in conflict as “unacceptable”.

The U.S. defense official said Moscow has little reason to implement the Minsk ceasefire agreement.

On Twitter, Dina Fidarova, said that the Putin-Trump call showed how easy it will be for Putin to take advantage of Trump’s apparent lack of knowledge or interest in the nuances of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

It has since been repeatedly broken – prompting Wednesday’s meeting of negotiators to call for the warring sides to ensure “strict adherence to (a) full and comprehensive cessation of fire”.

The outburst of violence since Sunday has reignited fears of full-scale warfare returning to eastern Ukraine after a relative lull in 33 months of bloodshed in the European Union’s backyard.

Washington has supplied aid to Ukraine including drones, radar, first-aid kits, night vision and communications gear as part Democratic President Barack Obama’s strategy of providing non-lethal military assistance while focusing on sanctions and diplomacy to end the war.