BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko in a bid to arrange a mini-summit that could actually end the ex-Soviet state's separatist war.
Merkel's office said she stressed that Poroshenko's attempt to convene a four-way leadership meeting in the Kazakh capital Astana on Thursday (Friday in Manila) would succeed only if the warring sides committed themselves more to an existing truce.
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