ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - The highest-level visit of European Union diplomats to Russia since the Ukraine crisis erupted produced no public breakthroughs, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued to send mixed signals of accommodation and confrontation over the continuing separatist violence in eastern Ukraine.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and their Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski attend a press conference following their meeting in St. Petersburg, on June 10, 2014. Germany's foreign minister said today that all sides appear committed to defusing the conflict in Ukraine following three-way talks with his Russian and Polish counterparts.
