Putin, Merkel Agree to Try to Return Russian Observers to East Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by phone on Thursday and agreed to work to try to create the conditions to allow Russian ceasefire observers to return to east Ukraine, the Kremlin and Berlin said.


German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement that Merkel had told Putin that Moscow should help to resolve the situation, while the Kremlin said it had been agreed that aides to the two leaders would draw up a plan to create conditions to allow the observers to return.
 (Tasnim)
  22/12/17