NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will meet Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk at NATO Headquarters Thursday afternoon.

The European Union is ready to give EUR 11 B of financial support to Ukraine over the next couple of years. Speaking at a news conference held at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, EC President Jose Manuel Barroso asserted that

European Union leaders holding a crisis meeting on Ukraine on Thursday could impose sanctions on Russia if there has been no “de-escalation” by then, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.