The leaders of France and Germany backed Russia by calling for a new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine on Thursday but told President Vladimir Putin to prevent separatist fighters and arms crossing the border into Ukraine.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor
Angela Merkel told Putin it was important to reach a political solution quickly in the three-month-old conflict between government forces and separatists in the country’s east.
In a three-way telephone conversation, they asked Putin to
“exert all necessary pressure” on the separatists and to take “the concrete measures required to control the Russia-Ukraine border,” Hollande’s office said in a statement.
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Source: Voice of America
