President Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (second from right), Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (second from left) and NATO leaders in Newport, Wales September 4, 2014. President Obama, Merkel and Poroshenko discussed the Ukraine cease-fire agreement yesterday. Photo by Alain Jocard/Reuters
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Barack Obama spoke Saturday with the leaders of Ukraine and Germany as fighting continued between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine hours before a scheduled cease-fire.
The White House says Obama and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stressed the need for all sides to halt the violence beginning at midnight in the region as …read more
Source: PBS
