Both the U.S. and European Union imposed new economic sanctions on Russia Wednesday, with President Barack Obama declaring that Russian leaders must see that their actions supporting Ukraine's rebels "have consequences." Though the American and European sanctions were co-ordinated, they nonetheless exposed fissures in what the West has tried to project as a united front in its months-long effort to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of fomenting a pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine by sending troops and weapons across its border with the former Soviet republic, something Moscow denies.
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