Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Vladimir Socor: Ukraine makes far-reaching concessions to Russia at Berlin meeting
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin address a joint press conference after talks at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin on July 2, 2014.
The foreign affairs ministers of Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine conferred on July 2 in Berlin, in a format designed to subject the Ukrainian side to pressure from the other three parties. The Ukrainian side has made far-reaching concessions in this meeting. Those terms are due to be formalized in a Russia-Ukraine-OSCE meeting (without Western participation) on July 5.
