Ukraine Crisis Summit Set For October 19 In Berlin
The leaders of Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine are to hold a summit in Berlin on October 19 to discuss efforts toward peace in eastern Ukraine.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, and President Francois Hollande of France to "assess the implementation” of the Minsk agreements, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on October 18.
Seibert said they will also “discuss further steps" in the process toward ending the Ukraine crisis.
The four leaders held their last summit on Ukraine in Paris in October 2015.
The 2015 Minsk peace agreement brokered by France and Germany has helped end large-scale fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east, but clashes have continued and efforts to reach a political settlement have stalled.
The conflict has killed more than 9,600 people since April 2014.