Section: Malaysia
Putin, Poroshenko to meet one-on-one in Milan -Kremlin official
MILAN (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will hold a one-to-one meeting in Milan on Friday following two earlier talks with European leaders, a senior Kremlin aide said. …read more Source: The...
Putin, Petroshenko meet Merkel, Hollande on Ukraine crisis
MILAN (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande for a second time on Friday to look for a way of resolving the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Merkel says no breakthrough with Russia on Ukraine
MILAN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Italy had not led to a breakthrough in the standoff over Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian president says 'not very optimistic' about crisis
MILAN (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told Austria’s chancellor on Friday he was not hopeful about the Ukraine crisis following talks earlier in the day with Russian and European leaders. …read more Source: The...
Putin to hold more talks with Ukraine, EU leaders on Friday – RIA news agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold more talks on Friday with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, RIA news agency reported on Friday. …read more Source: The...
Russia's Putin says meeting with Ukraine's Poroshenko 'positive'
MILAN (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday his meeting with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko and EU leaders had been “positive”, but despite his upbeat comment, there was no sign of a decisive breakthrough in solving the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Putin and Merkel have ‘serious differences’ over Ukraine
MOSCOW: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin have major differences over the origin and causes of the conflict in Ukraine, the Kremlin said following talks between the two leaders. “There are still serious differences concerning the origin of Ukraine’s internal conflict, as well as the root causes of...
Serious differences remain after Merkel-Putin meeting – Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Serious differences remain between Germany and Russia over the crisis in Ukraine following talks in Italy between Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Friday. …read more Source: The...
No sign of breakthrough as Russia, Ukraine meet in Milan
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko met an array of EU leaders on Friday, but there was little sign of progress in patching up a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and resolving a dispute over natural gas supplies. Putin held more than 2-1/2 hours of talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel overnight. The...
‘Maximum cooperation’ demanded on MH17
THE HAGUE: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has met Russian President Vladimir Putin to demand “maximum cooperation” in the probe into doomed Malaysia flight MH17, the Dutch top politician has said. “I have just spoken to President Putin in Milan and demanded maximum cooperation in resolving the MH17 disaster,” Rutte said in a tweet, posted on...
