Russia plays down hopes for breakthrough at Minsk talks as tensions rise with plans to send second aid convoy into UkraineUkraine’s government has said its forces have clashed with an armoured column that crossed the border from Russia as Moscow ramped up tensions ahead of crunch talks by pledging to send in a new aid convoy.The Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, and the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, are under pressure to defuse the crisis when they meet for the first time in months alongside top EU officials in Minsk on Tuesday. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
