Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Alexander J. Motyl: Expanding Putin’s blacklist
Ukrainian servicemen who came from Donetsk Oblast for a rotation embrace each other during a ceremony at the railway station in Kyiv on June 5. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on June 5 that Russia had deployed \"an unprecedented\" amount of troops on the border with Ukraine as well as claiming there are already thousands of troops in the rebel-held east of the ex-Soviet country.
European Union officials are outraged by the Kremlin’s “black list” of European officials denied entry into Russia. The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, called it “unacceptable.” Federica Mogherini, the EU high representative for foreign affairs, issued the following statement:
