NATO says still has 'clear disagreements' with Russia over Ukraine

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference ahead of the NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium March 30, 2017. Reuters/Eric Vidal

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO still has "clear disagreements" with Russia over the Ukraine crisis and expects Moscow to do more to rein in armed separatists battling Kiev's forces, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.

The West slapped sanctions on Russia in 2014 over its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and its support for the rebels in eastern Ukraine, in a conflict in which more than 10,000 people have been killed.