epa04672772 Pro-Russian rebels ride by car in front of shelling damaged buildings in the city of Donetsk, Ukraine, 21 March 2015. Russian lawmakers on 20 March lambasted the European Union’s decision to link its sanctions against Moscow to the implementation of a peace deal in Ukraine. Konstantin Kosachyov, the chairman of the foreign policy committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said that the EU action gives incentives to Kiev to derail the peace agreement signed last month in the Belarusian capital Minsk. EPA/ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO