epa04672757 Local men try to push and pull a cart across a bridge which was severly damaged in a shelling, in the pro-Russian rebel-controlled 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