The leaders of Germany and France are due in Moscow Friday to present a new peace proposal aimed at ending an upsurge in fighting in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will present their proposal to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, a day after meeting in Kyiv with Ukraine’s Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko. The meeting was closed to the media, and no details of the European peace initiative were disclosed. Poroshenko said the plan “raised hopes” for a cease-fire. Earlier Thursday in Kyiv, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry blamed …read more
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