Foreign ministers from Moscow and Kiev meet their French and German counterparts in Berlin on Monday to
arrange a Ukrainian peace summit that the Europeans fear is premature because
of festering fighting.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hopes to stage the leadership meeting
in the Kazakh capital Astana on Thursday so that two of his closest allies
could push Vladimir Putin into signing a document that finally commits Russia to
peace.
A Sept. 5 truce agreed by the two presidents’ envoys was followed by 1,300
more deaths and has ultimately failed to end the pro-Kremlin militias’
separatist claim in the industrial southeast of Ukraine.
But German Chancellor Merkel informed both Putin …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
