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Frank-Walter Steinmeier has visited eastern Ukraine with his counterparts from Paris and Kyiv. The foreign ministers toured the battle zone hours after separatists and government forces agreed to a new ceasefire.

The German and French foreign ministers made their first visit to Ukraine’s war-torn east on Sept. 15. Government forces have battled separatists in the region since April 2014.

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