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Brussels rejected Russia’s demand to lift #EU restrictions on a key agricultural bank as part of a partial ceasefire deal.

“The end of the Russian unprovoked and unjustified aggression in #Ukraine and unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions,” Anitta Hipper, European Commission spokesperson for foreign affairs, told the Financial Times.