KIEV, Ukraine—The heads of Germany and France will meet Kiev’s pro-Western leader in Berlin on Monday for Ukrainian crisis talks most notable for their diplomatically-charged exclusion of Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have put enormous political stakes on resolving Ukraine’s 16-month pro-Russian uprising and returning peace to the European Union’s turbulent eastern front.
They spent 17 hours locked up with Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the Belarussian capital Minsk in February before emerging with a peace deal that promised to end the fighting quickly and resolve all political disputes by th…Keep on reading: …read more
Source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer
