Reuters: Germany, France and Russia agree to keep working for peace in Ukraine

Published Jan. 19, 2017 at 12:18 pm

Welders fix a gas pipe in an apartment building in Svitlodarsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk Oblast on Dec. 24. This house was damaged by shelling on the previous day as a result of massive fighting between Russian-backed forces and Ukrainian soldiers.

Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

The leaders of Germany, France and Russia agreed on Jan. 18 to continue working toward a peaceful resolution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine under four-way peace talks that include Kyiv, a spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine and further steps in the Minsk peace process during a conference call, spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.