MOSCOW: Ukraine’s leader Petro Poroshenko will meet with US President Barack Obama on Thursday, amid hopes Kiev’s conflict with pro-Russian rebels may end after Moscow hailed an offer of self-rule for the separatists.

The autonomy offer was drawn up under a peace plan backed by both Kiev and Moscow 12 days ago that has eased—but not halted — deadly violence around insurgent strongholds in eastern Ukraine.

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