A meeting involving Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and the two sides has raised hopes of an end to the five-year-old conflictOn Monday, half a decade into the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Vladimir Putin sat down with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Accompanied by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel, they had some reason to declare their meeting a success.The four may not have brought immediate peace to the region, but they agreed to a complete ceasefire, further disengagement, de-mining, stepped-up monitoring by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and a full “all-for-all” exchange of prisoners by the end of …read more
Source:: The Guardian
