Russian Cameraman Killed in Ukraine, Europe Threatens Moscow

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A cameraman for Russia's Channel One TV station died from injuries after being shot by Kiev troops in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, said the broadcaster's press service.

"Our colleague Anatoly Klyan died tonight...he was fatally wounded in the stomach. He was 68-years-old," Channel One said on air.

Klyan, along with a few other journalists, boarded a bus full of women - mostly mothers - who were traveling to a military base in Donetsk to demand that their sons be dismissed from the unit and allowed to go home.

When the bus reached its destination, shots were fired from the base and that is when the cameraman was injured.
This comes as Ukraine's shaky truce is set to expire Monday.

Meanwhile, the leaders of Germany and France have warned Russia could face punishing sanctions unless Russian President Vladimir Putin forces the pro-Russian rebels to suspend their uprising.

The French presidency said Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made their case to the Russian strongman in a call on Sunday that stretched for more than two hours and included Ukraine's embattled pro-Western leader Petro Poroshenko.

The new Ukrainian president's office said the four agreed to speak again on Monday with the ceasefire expiring and no end to 13 weeks of fighting in sight.
The Ukrainian military reported losing five more soldiers over the weekend.
The European Union also issued an unusually firm statement telling Putin that he had until Monday to put explicit pressure on the separatist gunmen in restive east Ukraine or face the possibility of entire sectors of Russia's economy being cut off from the 28-nation bloc's 500 million consumers.

The French statement said Sunday's call stressed "the importance of new concrete steps to stabilize the security situation on the ground, the extension of the ceasefire and the implementation of the peace plan presented by the Ukrainian authorities."
It also cited the EU's punitive measures threat and said the three leaders told Putin they "hoped that results are achieved by Monday."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team