(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) w York April 15 - US President Barack Obama in a telephone call urged his Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence and rein in the separatists in eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian activists continued to occupy buildings in eastern towns according to a BBC News report. Putin rejected accusations of Russian interference calling the reports "unreliable". EU foreign ministers Monday said they would expand a list of names targeted by sanctions. Tension has been steadily rising since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula formerly part of Ukraine last month. The move condemned as illegal by Kiev and the West followed the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych in February BBC News said.
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