Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “you should just stop shooting” in a heated exchange last week, it has emerged.
The two met in Berlin, where they were joined by French president Francois Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel, in the so-called Normandy format—the name given to the four-way meetings held to discuss the conflict in Ukraine.
The meeting was marred by one major disagreement between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow supports the idea of separatists in Ukraine holding their own elections, while Kiev does not regard the Russian-backed militants as genuinely seeking self-determination, but rather an extension …read more
Source: Newsweek
