MOSCOW - Russia on June 20 slammed the EU's extension of sanctions over its annexation of Crimea as "blackmail" and vowed it would not be pressured into returning the peninsula to Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Agence France-Presse: Russia slams EU sanctions renewal as pointless ‘blackmail’
Armed pro-Russian separatists and a policeman of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic close a road on June 12, 2015 in downtown of Donetsk, the rebel bastion in east Ukraine.
