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BBC: UK and EU ‘badly misread’ Russia

By BBC.

Published Feb. 20, 2015 at 5:18 pm

Pro-Russian separatists play with a ball at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian city of Uglegorsk on Feb. 19, 2015.

Photo by AFP

The UK and the EU have been accused of a "catastrophic misreading" of the mood in the Kremlin in the run-up to the crisis in Ukraine.