The talks were attended by the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, senior European Union officials, including EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, as well as the leaders of Belarus and Kazakhstan, which are partners in the Russian-led Customs Union.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a private conversation on Tuesday evening, after the multilateral talks. The one-on-one meeting lasted for about two hours.
“We all wanted a breakthrough," Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told reporters after the multilateral part of the talks had finished.
- However, talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine apparently failed to result in any major breakthroughs.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday night, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was willing to “do everything” if a peace process to end the fighting in Ukraine’s war-torn east gets underway.
“Russia will do everything for the peace process if it begins," Putin stressed adding that the process “must be launched as soon as possible”................................http://en.ria.ru/world/20140827/192388946/Questions-Left-Unanswered-at-Putin-Poroshenko-Minsk-Talks.html
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Talks optimism fades as Ukraine says Russia makes new incursion...
ReplyDelete(Reuters) - Ukraine accused Russian forces of launching a new military incursion across its border on Wednesday, a day after the leaders of both countries agreed to work towards ending a separatist war in the east of the country.
The accusation, which could not be immediately verified, quickly dented any sense of cautious optimism from Tuesday's late-night talks between presidents Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko on resolving the five-month conflict.
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said a group of Russian soldiers had crossed the border in armored infantry carriers and a truck and entered the eastern town of Amvrosiyivka, not far from where Ukraine detained 10 Russian soldiers on Monday.
Lysenko said that fighting in the towns of Horlivka and Ilovaysk to the north and east respectively had killed about 200 pro-Russian separatists and destroyed tanks and missile systems. He said 13 Ukrainian service personnel had been killed in the past 24 hours and 36 had been wounded.
No comment was immediately available from the Russian defense ministry on the alleged incursion.................................http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/27/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0GQ0RF20140827?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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