EU sees ’biggest risk of war in 30 years’ as Ukraine & Russia talks hit ’dead end’

Poland’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Europe was at risk of plunging into war as Russia said it was not yet giving up on diplomacy but that military experts were preparing options in case tensions over Ukraine could not be defused. “It seems that the risk of war in the OSCE area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years.“ At a security meeting of 57 nations in Vienna on Thursday, Poland’s foreign minister said Europe was closer to war than any time in the last three decades, as Russia said diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions over Ukraine... were hitting a dead end.