EU sanctions on Russia at risk without Ukraine reforms -Denmark

Denmark's Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen and Denmark's Immigration and Integration Minister Inger Stojberg give a news conference after a meeting on the new Danish asylum laws at the European Parliament's civil liberties committee in Brussels, Belgium, January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Vidal

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Ukraine must uphold its part of a peace deal with Russia by modernising the country or risk a collapse of support for EU sanctions against Moscow, Denmark's foreign minister said on Friday.

The European Union is pressing Kiev to overcome political feuding and implement reforms to bring Ukraine out of Russia's shadow and into the West, but the resignation of Ukraine's frustrated economy minister has underlined the difficulties.