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The European Union is ready to ponder not just sanctions on Russia but also a revision of its relations with Russia and the European security model at large, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

“It is not just about sanctions; the question is how EU-Russia
relations may look like, how the security model and relationships across
the European continent may look like. And this is crystal clear to
everybody,” Klimkin said in an ICTV Freedom of Speech program aired on
Monday evening, July 21.

The world used to watch the Ukrainian events as if through a window
but the plane crash became sort of a turning point, “as if somebody had
tossed a bottle out of the window,” Klimkin said.

“It is now clear to everyone that if somebody takes gradual attempts
to destabilize another part of Europe that won’t be let happen.”

He does not believe Europe will be able to forget about the situation
in eastern Ukraine and the Crimean problem as “the dynamics is totally
different now.” Everyone has realized that the militants operating in
the Donetsk and Luhansk regions “are terrorists”, he said.

“Can you compare what is happening in Catalonia or Scotland with what
is happening in Donetsk and Luhansk? Europe has come to understand
that. And Asia also has an understanding. It sent a wave across the
world, and people realized such sort of destabilization was everyone’s
concern,” the minister pointed out.