Obama: US And Europe United Behind Ukraine

Barack Obama has said Europe and America are united in support of the Ukrainian government and its people.

The US president spoke shortly after he arrived in Europe on a trip that will be dominated by efforts by Western leaders to forge a common response to Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Mr Obama said his message to European leaders is that Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to understand the economic and political consequences of his actions in Ukraine.

"If Russia continues to escalate the situation we need to be prepared to impose a greater cost," he told the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant published ahead of his arrival in Amsterdam.

Defying Western sanctions, Vladimir Putin signs the annexation of Crimea

Washington has imposed sanctions on 31 people in a campaign carefully crafted to target Russian officials with links to Mr Putin without creating a backlash against US businesses.

The US president added: "The United States does not view Europe as a battleground between East and West, nor do we see the situation in Ukraine as a zero-sum game.

"That's the kind of thinking that should have ended with the Cold War."

During his meetings in Europe, Mr Obama will seek to isolate Russia while gauging how far the still economically shaky European Union is willing to go in punishing Russia, one of its largest trading partners.

Russian troops massing along the Ukrainian border

Russia has defied Western sanctions, consolidating its grip of the Crimean peninsula and raising fears of further incursions into Ukraine.

The week-long trip will take Mr Obama to four countries.

In the Netherlands, he will join world leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit and head a hastily arranged meeting of the G7 - the US, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

Mr Obama's focus on Ukraine will continue in Brussels, the headquarters for the EU and NATO.

The nuclear summit in The Hague is held under tight security

A Rome stop will feature a highly anticipated meeting with Pope Francis.

Then the president will travel to Saudi Arabia for a fence-mending visit with the important Gulf ally.

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