Pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine yesterday released a second group of European monitors after being pressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet the terms of a tenuous truce with Kyiv.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Didier Burkhalter (L), Swiss President and chairman of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) prior to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Vienna, Austria on June 24, 2014.