BRUSSELS: The European Union on Tuesday decided to keep in place biting economic sanctions on Russia over its alleged backing of pro-Kremlin insurgents who have largely ignored a four-week Ukrainian truce.

The bloc's announcement came just moments before NATO reported the continued presence of "hundreds" of elite Russian soldiers in the war-torn former Soviet nation's separatist east.

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