The Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev has urged the U.S. and Russian presidents to personally start talks on alleviating the Ukraine crisis, fearing the conflict may not stay “frozen” for long.
Ukraine has entered a tense stalemate with Russian-backed separatists in its eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, after violence erupted in 2014. A ceasefire struck between Ukraine, Russia, the rebel leadership—brokered by Germany and France in Belarus’s capital of Minsk—has neared the brink several times. Delegates from the four countries, known as the Normandy Four are the main body in regular ceasefire talks.
“The current mechanisms of regulating the crisis are …read more
Source: Newsweek
