Obama comments to reporters on the situation in Ukraine before meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington

U.S. President Barack Obama comments to reporters on the situation in Ukraine before meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington March 3, 2014. Obama said on Monday that Russia has violated international law in its military intervention in Ukraine and said the U.S. government has warned it will look at a series of economic and diplomatic sanctions that would isolate Moscow. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES – Tags: POLITICS)