AKIPRESS.COM - European Council President Herman Van Rompuy ruled out EU military intervention to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, China Daily reported.

In his view, the EU should “use other tools” to help resolve the crisis. “We must help the country economically and politically in the creation of new institutions,” he said.

Van Rompuy added he believes that Ukraine has become a “victim of a campaign to destabilize undertaken by external elements.”

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Geneva agreement on Ukraine should get a new life. He made the remarks on arrival at the Ministerial Session of the Council of Europe. “If there is an opportunity to breathe new life into the agreements reached in Geneva three weeks ago, we should try to do this,” he said.

Ukraine's interior minister said on Tuesday that 30 pro-Russian insurgents were killed during operations to expunge anti-government forces in and near a city in the east, while Kiev authorities attempted to reassert control over the southern region of Odessa by appointing a new governor there.