Ukraine crisis can't be settled without lifting all sanctions on Russia - Medvedev

ST. PETERSBURG. June 27 (Interfax) - The Ukraine crisis will continue if the sanctions imposed on Russia remain in place, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.

"A settlement of the Ukraine crisis is impossible without lifting all sanctions on the Russian Federation, so that our dialogue partners shouldn't say that the sanctions will remain in place. [If that is the case], then the crisis will continue," Medvedev said at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.