SIVERSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s new Western-backed leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin have both called for dialogue to end a pro-Moscow uprising that has threatened the ex-Soviet state’s survival and brought Europe to the edge of war.

The twin calls on Sunday (Monday in Manila) from the central figures of the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War era came with the ragtag militias in Ukraine’s eastern rustbelt showing no desire to end their independence drive.

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