(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The EU Sunday night said reports in Ukraine about convoys in separatists-held areas with substantial amounts of heavy weapons, tanks and troops without insignia moving westwards represent "a very worrying development." "This comes in addition to reported heavy outgoing shelling overnight from the Donetsk area and reports over the last week of increased movements of troops and equipment," noted EU High Representative Federica Mogherini in a statement.
"It is imperative to avoid any re-escalation of hostilities. All parties must now show utmost restraint," she stressed.
Mogherini called on Russia "to fully assume its responsibilities in this regard, including by preventing any further movement of military, weapons or fighters from its territory into Ukraine, and withdrawing any troops, weapons and equipment under its control from Ukraine".
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