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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says the ongoing EU summit in Brussels has agreed to prepare new sanctions on Russia, conditional on progress of his peace plan.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels as EU leaders meet on August 30, he also said he thinks the crisis over Russia's intervention in Ukraine is "very close to the point of no return, [of) full-scale war."
He said he hoped the contact group meeting on September 1 with Russia, Ukraine, and the OSCE in Minsk could result in a cease-fire.
Separately, Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier on August 30 in a telephone talk with Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka that it was important to organize consultations of the contact group in Minsk with the participation of representatives of Kyiv, of Ukraine's southeastern regions, the OSCE, and Russia.
Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, speaking at a news conference in Kyiv today:
"Direct military aggression from the Russian Federation is continuing in eastern Ukraine. Russians are continuing to send military equipment and mercenaries to Donbas."
"According to the latest information, Russian tanks entered [the village of Novosvitlivka in the Luhansk region] and destroyed virtually every house. Experts say that this is the Chechen style of the Russian army -- when they destroy every building if they suspect someone from the enemy's side is in that building."