Paris talks also involving France and Germany see Russia pushing for Ukraine to take back legal control of territoriesRussian and Ukrainian officials have expressed cautious optimism following a long bout of negotiations in Paris to end the conflict in east Ukraine which has raged for a year and cost more than 8,000 lives.A Kremlin spokesman described the talks – which involved the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany – as “businesslike”, although Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko cautioned that the conflict would only end when “the last piece of Ukrainian territory was freed”, according to Interfax Ukraine. … …read more
Source: The Guardian