Berlin (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko on the situation in Ukraine, the German government spokesman said.The separate conversations came ahead of a meeting Monday in Berlin of the Russian, Ukrainian and German foreign ministers.Merkel’s talks concerned the situation in Ukraine and the Minsk agreement for a truce, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.”The chancellor expressed concern about the continuing tensions and the humanitarian situation in the east of Ukraine,” he said.In her conversation with Poroshenko, Merkel stressed her support in principle for a Normandy-style meeting of heads of …read more
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