MOSCOW – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande were due in Moscow Friday after getting Kiev’s tentative backing for a crunch peace plan aimed at ending surging violence in Ukraine.Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said talks with Merkel and Hollande late Thursday raised “hope for a ceasefire” after the duo jetted into Kiev in the biggest push yet to resolve the ten-month conflict.The two European leaders are set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin – who the West sees as the mastermind behind Ukraine’s pro-Moscow rebellion – to try to get him to sign up to their peace …read more
Source: AsiaOne
