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London – The situation in Ukraine isn't a confrontation between East and West, British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said. 

“We are very worried about the situation in Ukraine. And I don’t think it need be seen as an East/West struggle,” he said in an interview with the BBC on Sunday.

“You know the fact is that if Ukraine entered into the agreements with the EU that we’ve put forward to have free trade with the European Union, that would benefit the people of Ukraine. It would also benefit the people of Russia,” the secretary said.

Hague also said that on Friday night he spoke to foreign minister of Ukraine and “urged that restraint in the face of violence and that repressive laws about freedom of expression and civil society should be changed, should be repealed.”