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UK foreign minister: Putin isn't budging on Ukraine

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Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond speaks during news conference after his meeting with Polish counterpart Grzegorz Schetyna (not pictured) at the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw March 6, 2015.  REUTERS/Kacper Pempell

LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday he had detected no change in Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategic intentions towards Ukraine, despite a reduction in violence following the Minsk ceasefire agreement.

"There has been a reduction in violence since the new agreement was signed but I don't detect that Mr Putin's strategic intentions have changed," he said in an interview on BBC television. "This is just a question now about what tools he uses to achieve those objectives."

(Reporting by William James; editing by Jason Neely)

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