KIEV: The United States voiced hope for a "de-escalation" in the Ukraine crisis on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), as the West offered billions to Kiev's new government and the tensions in Crimea forced a UN envoy to cut short his mission.

In a bid to defuse the worst West-versus-Moscow standoff since the Cold War, US Secretary of State John Kerry met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris for the first time since the crisis erupted.

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