Ukraine says may block Russian aid convoy

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div class="linebreak" style="clear: both; float: none; height: 1px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 610px;"> </div> <div class="relatedRai" id="relatedInlineVideo"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe allowtransparency="true" border="0" frameborder="0" height="330" scrolling="no" src="http://www.reuters.com/assets/video/html5?videoId=340469532&width=580&height=330" style="border-style: none; height: 330px; overflow: hidden; width: 580px;" width="580"></iframe></span></div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> <div class="module" id="relatedVideo" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; width: 140px;"> <div class="moduleHeader" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: medium none; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <h3 style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">RELATED VIDEO</span></span></h3> </div> <div class="moduleBody" style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <div class="feature" style="background-image: none; float: left; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <div class="photo" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 4px 0px; position: relative;"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/video/idUSKBN0GC08Q20140812?videoId=340469532" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; margin-top: 3px; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Video" border="0" height="80" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?d=20140812&i=92011112&w=140&r=92011112-1&t=2" style="border: medium none; outline: none;" width="140" /><img alt="" border="0" class="overlay" height="80" src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/video_overlay_140.gif" style="border: none !important; left: 0px; outline: none; position: absolute;" width="140" /></span></a></div> <h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;" tns="no"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/video/idUSKBN0GC08Q20140812?videoId=340469532" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 3px; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Russia sends aid to Ukraine, raises red flags</span></a></h2> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> <div class="module" id="relatedNews" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; width: 140px;"> <div class="moduleHeader" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: medium none; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <h3 style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">RELATED NEWS</span></span></h3> </div> <div class="moduleBody" style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <ul style="clear: both; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-ukraine-crisis-poland-idUSKBN0GC1RV20140812" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Threat of Russia invading east Ukraine has eased: Polish minister</span></a></li> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-ukraine-crisis-eu-idUSKBN0GC10R20140812" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">ICRC must vet, distribute Russian aid, EU says</span></a></li> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/12/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-switzerland-idUSKBN0GC1K420140812" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Switzerland cancels Russian participation in air show</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> <div class="module" id="relatedTopics" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; width: 140px;"> <div class="moduleHeader" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border: medium none; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <h3 style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">RELATED TOPICS</span></span></h3> </div> <div class="moduleBody" style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <ul style="clear: both; float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; width: 140px;"> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/world" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">World »</span></a></li> <li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/russia" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Russia »</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> <div id="thirdPartyLinkbackNews"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid2" id="relatedInteractive" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 140px;"> </div> </div> <div class="columnLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 35px;"> <div class="relatedRail gridPanel grid4" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 300px;"> <div class="assetBuddy" name="ukraine convoy ss"> <span modulename="E0813142133_475484" name="trackingEnabledModule" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br /> <div class="module" style="float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; width: 300px;"> <div class="moduleBody" style="float: left; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"> <div class="feature" style="float: left; padding: 0px; width: 300px;"> <div class="photo" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 4px 0px; position: relative;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody> <tr><td valign="middle"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR4263W" modid="worldNews|Text|E0813142133_475484" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"></a><br /> <div class="slideshowOverlay" style="background-image: url(http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources_v2/images/btn_overlay_slideshow.png); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; left: 0px; position: absolute; width: 83px;"> </div> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR4263W" modid="worldNews|Text|E0813142133_475484" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;"> <img alt="Photo" border="0" src="http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20140812&t=2&i=963591107&w=120&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2014-08-12T205130Z_3_GM1EA8C1SH501_RTRMADP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-RUSSIA-AID" style="border: none; outline: none;" title="Photo" /></a></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 20px;"> <span modulename="E0813142133_475484" name="trackingEnabledModule" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR4263W" modid="worldNews|Text|E0813142133_475484" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Russian convoy heads to Ukraine</a></span></h2> <div style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px;"> <span modulename="E0813142133_475484" name="trackingEnabledModule" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Russian convoy sets off for eastern Ukraine.  <span class="inlineLinks" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR4263W" modid="worldNews|Text|E0813142133_475484" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Slideshow</a></span> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> <span modulename="E0813142133_475484" name="trackingEnabledModule" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> </div> </div> <span id="articleText" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span id="midArticle_start"></span><span id="midArticle_0"></span><span class="focusParagraph"></span></span><br /> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> (Reuters) - A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/ukraine?lc=int_mb_1001" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Ukraine</a></span>, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> (Reuters) - A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/ukraine?lc=int_mb_1001" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Ukraine</a></span>, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory.</div> <div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> Kiev and Western governments warned Moscow against any attempt to turn the operation into a military intervention by stealth in a region facing a humanitarian crisis after four months of warfare.</div> <div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> "This cargo will be reloaded onto other transport vehicles (at the border) by the Red Cross," Ukrainian presidential aide Valery Chaly told journalists.</div> <span class="focusParagraph" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><span id="midArticle_2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><span id="midArticle_3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We will not allow any escort by the emergencies ministry of Russia or by the military (onto Ukrainian territory). Everything will be under the control of the Ukrainian side," he said.</span></div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Russia said it would transfer the convoy to the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross, but made no reference to the demand the goods be reloaded. The European Union said the aid would have to be verified.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> "No political or any other objectives must be pursued," EU humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva told a news conference. "The content of humanitarian aid must be exactly that, humanitarian aid, and obviously cannot be taken on face value."</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Russian media said the column of 280 trucks had left from near Moscow and it would take a couple of days for it to make the 1,000 km (620 mile) journey to Ukraine's eastern regions where rebel fighters seek union with Russia.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Western countries believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has whipped up nationalist fervor in Russia through the state-controlled media since annexing Crimea in March, might be spurred to fresh action since separatists in their main redoubt of Donetsk are now encircled by Kiev government forces.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Rossiya 24 TV showed a 3-km long line of containers and trucks loaded with crates of drinking water and other products stretched along a road with workers loading sacks of aid. A Russian orthodox priest marched across a line of trucks, spraying them with holy water before they left.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> "It has all been agreed with <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/places/ukraine?lc=int_mb_1001" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Ukraine</a></span>," Business FM radio quoted Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, as saying of an operation publicized with fanfare on Russian TV channels.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> The U.S., French and Australian governments voiced concern that Russia, sole international supporter of rebels in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east, could use the humanitarian deliveries to carry out a covert operation to help fighters who appear to be on the verge of defeat.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> BITTER FIGHTING</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> With Ukraine reporting Russia has massed 45,000 troops on its border, NATO said on Monday that there was a "high probability" Moscow might now intervene militarily in Ukraine.[ID:nL6N0QH2YV]</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Itar-Tass news agency said the convoy carried 2,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid. It included 400 tonnes of cereals, 100 tonnes of sugar, 62 tonnes of baby food, 54 tonnes of medical equipment and medicine, 12,000 sleeping bags and 69 generators.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Thousands of people are believed to be short of water, electricity and medical aid in Donetsk and in the border town of Luhansk due to bitter fighting, involving air strikes and missile attacks.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> U.N. agencies say well over 1,000 people have been killed, including government forces, rebels and civilians, in the conflict in which a Malaysian airliner was downed on July 17 with the deaths of all 298 people on board.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> A further six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action overnight, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said, bringing to more than 570 the number of government forces killed since conflict erupted in April.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Kiev and its Western allies say Russia, which opposes the new leadership's pro-Western policies, has been funneling tanks, missiles and other heavy weapons to the rebels for months. Moscow denies this.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> "TRANSPARENT ARTIFICE"</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> With the humanitarian crisis growing by the day in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin might welcome the opportunity to garner sympathy if the Russian convoy arrives at the border and is turned away by the Ukrainians.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> If, and when, the cargo crosses into Ukraine it is expected to come through a border crossing point just north of the city of Kharkiv.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> A former Ukrainian president, Leonid Kuchma, who has been involved in tentative mediation with the rebels said it would then travel down through north-eastern Ukraine to Luhansk under an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) escort.</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Speaking in Sydney on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said: "Our hope is that in the next days and weeks, we can find a way for President Petro Poroshenko and Ukraine to be able to work with the Russians to provide the humanitarian assistance necessary in the east."</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told reporters: "Any intervention by Russia into Ukraine under the guise of an humanitarian crisis would be seen for the transparent artifice that it is and Australia would condemn (it) in the strongest possible terms." [ID:nL4N0QI25I]</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> In Paris, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said: "We must be extremely careful because this (the convoy) could be a cover for the Russians to install themselves near Lugansk and Donetsk and put us before a done deed."</div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> </div> <span id="articleText" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"><span id="midArticle_5"></span><span id="midArticle_6"></span><span id="midArticle_7"></span><span id="midArticle_8"></span><span id="midArticle_9"></span><span id="midArticle_10"></span><span id="midArticle_11"></span><span id="midArticle_12"></span><span id="midArticle_13"></span><span id="midArticle_14"></span><span id="midArticle_15"></span><span id="midArticle_0"></span><span id="midArticle_1"></span><span id="midArticle_2"></span><span id="midArticle_3"></span><span id="midArticle_4"></span><span id="midArticle_5"></span><span id="midArticle_6"></span><span id="midArticle_7"></span><span id="midArticle_8"></span><span id="midArticle_9"></span><span id="midArticle_10"></span><span id="midArticle_11"></span><span id="midArticle_12"></span><span id="midArticle_13"></span><span id="midArticle_14"></span><span id="midArticle_15"></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"></span><br /> <div class="relatedTopicButtons" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans;"> </div> <br /> <div style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"> (Additional reporting by Natalia Zinets in Kiev, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=stephanienebehay&" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Stephanie Nebehay</a> in Geneva and Polina Devitt in Moscow; Writing by <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&n=richard.balmforth&" style="color: #006e97; cursor: pointer; outline: none medium; text-decoration: none;">Richard Balmforth</a>)</div> </div>

Ukraine says may block Russian aid convoy

RELATED VIDEO Russia sends aid to Ukraine, raises red flags RELATED NEWS Threat of Russia invading east Ukr...

Read more »