Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande are headed to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin over eastern Ukraine peace plan. |||
Kiev – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are headed on Friday to Moscow as they mount a diplomatic push behind their latest initiative to halt escalating violence in eastern Ukraine.Merkel and Hollande met late on Thursday in Kiev with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko before travelling on Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.“Everyone wants peace, and we expect Russia wants that, too,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said after Merkel’s meeting …read more
Source: Independent Online