Leaders of the so-called Normandy group – France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine – gathered in Minsk on Wednesday to try to forge a peace deal for Eastern Ukraine.
The very fact that the four leaders had converged in the capital of Belarus with the stated aim to bring peace to Ukraine highlights mounting concerns the standoff will not only continue to claim human lives but could destabilize the whole region.
The conflict, opposing the pro-Western Ukrainian government to pro-Russian separatists in the country’s eastern regions, has claimed the lives of more than 5,000 people since it began in April last year.
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Source: Novinite
