Leaders in France and Germany pushed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to accept a plan requiring him to cooperate with Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Paris last week.
The plan was developed for the meeting by French diplomat Pierre Morel, and Poroshenko was prepared to dismiss it in the negotiations with French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Putin Friday. The Ukrainian president planned to call on Russia to obey the Minsk ceasefire agreement, cancel elections in areas controlled by Russia-backed rebels, and relinquish control of Ukraine’s eastern border by the end of 2015.
However, Bloomberg reported:
After five hours of …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
