article_snippet.sent: Russia has key interests in .
article_snippet.sent: Relations between Moscow and Washington, and other .
article_snippet.sent: Western powers, have soured over the conflict in Russia's .
article_snippet.sent: neighbor Ukraine, sinking to an all-time low. '
article_snippet.sent: and the West in general, blaming them for the Ukraine crisis, . which Russia says was the result of a Western-backed 'coup' against Ukraine's former leader Viktor Yanukovich.
article_snippet.sent: Russia has repeatedly denied accusations from Kiev and the .
article_snippet.sent: West that Russia is supporting pro-Russian rebels with troops and .
article_snippet.sent: weapons in eastern Ukraine, where more than 6,000 people have . been killed since last April.
article_snippet.sent: the U.S. and Russia imposed sanctions on Russia over Moscow's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and accusations of supporting separatists in Ukraine.
article_snippet.sent: But, both Russia and the West say Russia and the West back a peace deal .
article_snippet.sent: agreed in Minsk in February, as a result of which a ceasefire in .
article_snippet.sent: the Donbass region is largely holding.