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EU to consider increasing sanctions on Russia over conflict in Ukraine

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Nearly 13,000 people have been killed in five years of fighting in the border region between Russia and Ukraine. The conflict pitches government forces against Russian-backed separatists. Later today European Union Foreign Ministers will meet in Brussels to discuss increasing sanctions against Moscow. NBC's Bill Neely visited the battleground of Europe's often-forgotten war. Those on the Ukrainian side clearly see Russia as being behind the separatist movement. Ukrainian Army Officer Dmitri Kebtz said: "It's my country. It's my earth. It's mine. I was born in this place." And Ukrainian MP Mustafa Nayyem claimed: "Russia is not ready to accept Ukraine as an independent country." Watch the report in the video player above.

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