BERLIN — The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine met here Monday with their German and French counterparts in the latest attempt to ease the crisis in eastern Ukraine, where some 4,700 people have been killed since the conflict erupted last spring.
Sounding weary but determined to pursue any chance of a diplomatic solution, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany said he had invited his colleagues for more talks because “it would be wrong not to undertake this attempt at the beginning of a new year.”
While the shaky cease-fire has slowed the killing in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
