BUDAPEST – Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 17 urged Kyiv to allow Ukrainian soldiers who are encircled in an eastern Ukrainian town to lay down their weapons as Washington warned Moscow that “the costs to Russia will rise” if it keeps supporting the rebels. A Ukrainian defense spokesman, Anatoliy Stelmakh, said “several [army]units were...
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