PARIS – The leaders of France and Germany were carrying a new peace initiative to the Ukrainian and Russian capitals Thursday, amid a flurry of high-level diplomacy to end what French President Francois Hollande called a war on Europe’s edge.
Hollande said he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would travel to Kyiv on Thursday and then to Moscow the following day, with a proposal “based on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.” In a sign of the importance of the initiative and urgency of the situation, this will be Merkel’s first trip to Moscow since Ukraine’s conflict broke out a year ago.
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Source: Metro News
