The German foreign minister is visiting Ukraine to help start talks between the Ukrainian Government and pro-Russian separatists following declarations of independence by two eastern regions.
Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in the embattled country Tuesday to support a
“national dialogue,” part of a plan laid out by the laid out by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region declared independence Monday and is asking Moscow to consider letting it become part of Russia. The pro-Russian leader of the eastern region of Luhansk also declared that region's independence.
Separatists in both regions say 90 percent voted in favor of breaking away from Ukraine in two separate referendums Sunday. The results cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine's foreign ministry calls the elections "clumsy" and says polls by Western and Ukrainian agencies show the vast majority of those living in the east prefer a unified Ukraine.
It accuses "pro-Russian terrorists" of intimidating the majority against speaking out, and says a free and fair presidential election on May 25 is its priority...
Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier is in the embattled country Tuesday to support a
“national dialogue,” part of a plan laid out by the laid out by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region declared independence Monday and is asking Moscow to consider letting it become part of Russia. The pro-Russian leader of the eastern region of Luhansk also declared that region's independence.
Separatists in both regions say 90 percent voted in favor of breaking away from Ukraine in two separate referendums Sunday. The results cannot be independently verified.
Ukraine's foreign ministry calls the elections "clumsy" and says polls by Western and Ukrainian agencies show the vast majority of those living in the east prefer a unified Ukraine.
It accuses "pro-Russian terrorists" of intimidating the majority against speaking out, and says a free and fair presidential election on May 25 is its priority...
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