The coordination of US and Russian military action in fighting against the Islamic State will not influence the position of the United States regarding the situation in Ukraine, White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said at a briefing on Thursday, November 19, the White House reports.
The European Union does not rule out the use of sanctions on Russia if its actions in Syria are found to fall short of the tasks of counterterrorism and if it is confirmed that the targets of the Russian aviation are not the extremist group the Islamic State.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that because of the inflow of migrants in the European Union due to the Russian military operation in Syria, not all political forces in the European Union will support the introduction of visa free regime for Ukraine.
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden in a course of the meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in New York assured the head of Ukrainian state that the country's security issue in no way related to the situation in Syria, the president's press service said.
Ukrainian border guards detained five illegal migrants from Syria and one from Iraq in Zakarpattia region, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported on Monday.