Russia cannot divide Europe over Ukraine, says German minister


VILNIUS (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Thursday Russia could not succeed in breaking European Union unity on sanctions over Ukraine by using strategies such as offering to remove trade embargoes against individual EU member states.

"It might be that there are some attempts like this and there will be in future. There were such attempts and they were not successful," he said in Lithuania, where concern about neighbouring Russia's intervention in Ukraine is especially acute.

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