Kremlin Confirms Putin's Meeting With Merkel, Hollande on Ukraine Friday

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Russian President Putin, German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande will discuss concrete steps to resolve Ukrainian internal crisis that has deteriorated significantly in recent weeks.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The leaders of Russia, Germany and France will meet in Moscow on Friday to discuss steps to stop the civil war in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.

“I confirm that there are planned talks for tomorrow between [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, [German Chancellor Angela] Merkel, and [French President Francois] Hollande, during which the heads of the three states will discuss what the three states can do concretely in order to bring an end to the civil war in eastern Ukraine, which has considerably worsened over the last few days and has brought about numerous victims,” Peskov told RIA Novosti.

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Earlier today, it was announced that French President Hollande and German Chancellor Merkel would visit Kiev Thursday and Moscow Friday to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. During their visits to Moscow and Kiev this week, the leaders of France and Germany plan to prepare a draft reconciliation agreement on Ukraine that would satisfy all sides of the conflict.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is also in Kiev Thursday, he is set to meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at 11 a.m. GMT.

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Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France are the members of the Normandy format talks on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. The last Normandy format meeting at the foreign minister level took place in Berlin on January 21, but, like previous meetings, did not lead to a breakthrough in the issue. Wolfgang Ischinger, the chairman of the Munich Security Conference, to be held from February 6 to 8, told RIA Novosti that a Normandy format meeting on the sidelines of the conference was possible, although not very likely.

Despite the Minsk ceasefire agreement, fighting continues in Ukraine's southeast, where the eastern Donbas region has seen a sharp increase in deadly clashes between Kiev-led forces and pro-independence fighters in recent days.
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