Russia calls for 'immediate end' to violence in Ukraine

Russia calls for 'immediate end' to violence in Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday called on Kiev to put an immediate end to violence in Ukraine, after 40 people were killed in fighting in the eastern city of Donetsk.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on in Moscow on May 27, 2014

"The number one task for the Kiev authorities and the test of their durability, given the results of the presidential election, is bringing an immediate end to the use of the army against the public and an end to any violence by all sides," Lavrov said in Moscow at a televised news conference.

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