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US and Germany threaten Russia with 'additional consequences' over Ukraine

President Barack Obama salutes as he methods from Marine One upon his arrival on Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

On a busy day of diplomatic activity, President Barack Obama and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, agreed on Saturday that Russia would face “additional consequences” if it intervened in Ukraine without permission from the Ukrainian government, the White House stated.

In a statement about a contact between Obama and Merkel that took spot whilst Obama was aboard Air Force One, flying to Massachusetts for a scheduled getaway, the White Residence said: “The two leaders agreed that any Russian intervention in Ukraine, even under purported ‘humanitarian’ auspices, without having the formal, express consent and authorisation of the government of Ukraine is unacceptable, violates international law, and will provoke further consequences.”

Fighting in eastern Ukraine continues in a crisis dating from the fall in February of Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Russian Kiev government. Russia subsequently occupied and annexed Crimea in July a Malaysia Airlines plane, Flight MH17, was brought down more than Ukraine by a missile the US believes was fired by pro-Russia separatists.

The White Home added that the two leaders also reiterated their commitment to urge Russia to seek a political answer to the crisis in Ukraine.

According to a statement from Russia’s foreign ministry, the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, spoke by telephone with his US counterpart, the secretary of state, John Kerry, and called for “urgent measures for stopping an impending humanitarian catastrophe in south-eastern regions” of Ukraine.

The statement stated: “John Kerry confirmed such perform is getting carried out with the Kiev authorities.”

Kerry was in Burma on Saturday. He pressed his host country on human rights and sought to address tensions between local powers and China over the South China Sea.

On Saturday morning, on the South Lawn of the White Property, Obama delivered a statement with regards to air strikes against Islamist militants in Iraq and humanitarian airdrops to Yazidi refugees on Mount Sinjar.

Obama detailed calls that morning with the British prime minister, David Cameron, and the French president, François Hollande about contributing to the help effort in Iraq.

The White Home later mentioned Obama and Cameron had been calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities among Israel and Hamas in Gaza and pressing for action that would lead to a permanent ceasefire.

Obama has spent at least component of his summer season in Martha’s Vineyard every single year he has been president except 2012, when he was running for re-election. This year he will break his vacation midway via, with a two-day return to Washington.

Advisers have been cagey about why the president is returning to Washington, saying only that he plans to hold in-particular person meetings at the White Residence.