The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, called on Ukraine to speed up the reform process, warning that some European countries are waiting for a reason to remove the sanctions against Russia.

“We know that there are at least five countries that will refuse to participate in the continued extension of sanctions against Russia, should Ukraine give the European Union a reason to do so,” Biden said in his speech before the Foreign Affairs Council in New York on the 21st of September. …

Ukrainian border guards recorded the flights of seven Russian helicopters on September 21st in the area of the administrative Crimean border, reported the Ukrainian State Border Service press-service.

“Yesterday border guards from the State Border Service of Ukraine again observed Russian Armed Forces activity near the administrative border with the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea. In particular, servicemen from the Kherson and Berdiansk units traced seven Russian military …

The Trilateral Contact Group, which was created to settle the conflict in eastern Ukraine, agreed on a "withdrawal of troops and weapons" by all parties to the conflict in the Donbas region, as stated on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, by Daria Olifer, Press Secretary of the Ukrainian representative to the group, Leonid Kuchma, on her Facebook page. This information was confirmed by the Special Representative of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Martin Sajdik. …