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Brussels - Russia will not interfere in Ukraine's internal affairs and believes that too many mediators could only multiply the number of problems facing the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“Concerning advice for Ukraine on what to do and how. I think the Ukrainian people can sort this out themselves. At least Russia will never interfere in this,” Putin said at a press conference following an EU-Russia summit in Brussels on Tuesday.

“I can only imagine how our European partners would have reacted if amid a crisis, say, in Greece or in Cyprus, our foreign minister had appeared at an anti-European rally and started making some calls. We believe this is not very good in general, and, taking into consideration certain specifics of relations between Russia and Ukraine, this is simply unacceptable and impossible for us,” Putin said.