A third round of talks between representatives of Ukraine’s government and pro-Russian separatists opened in Minsk Friday, amid reports that renewed shelling in eastern Ukraine had claimed several lives.
Attending the latest meeting in Belarus’ capital were Ukraine’s former president Leonid Kuchma and several officials of the rebels’ self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics,” along with Russia’s Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov and representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
During the last meeting of the so-called Contract Group, which took place in Minsk on September 5, the representatives of Kyiv and the rebels signed a 12-point cease-fire protocol …read more
Source: Voice of America
