: :inin Kyiv (EET)

No troops pullback, no Normandy summit, says Ukraine’s president


Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky. (AFP pic)KIEV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday threatened to call off a summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin if all sides do not agree on plans to pull out troops from the east.
The country’s comedian-turned-leader is gearing up to hold talks with Putin in Paris to revive a peace process to end the five-year separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Those efforts appeared to have recently stalled as the Kiev forces and the separatists have so far both failed to pull back troops from the frontline.
“If there is no pullback (of troops) there is no Normandy summit,” …read more

Source:: Free Malaysia Today

UaPositon