German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have arrived in Moscow to discuss a ceasefire and a lasting peace for war-wracked eastern Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The top-level diplomatic dash on Friday came a day after the two leaders met with the Ukrainian government in Kiev to discuss how to salvage a peace plan agreed upon last year in Minsk, Belarus. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement the talks were taking place “eye to… …read more
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