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BBC: Merkel to arrive in Kyiv as crisis mounts

By BBC.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the second day of the EU summit on June 27, 2014 at the EU headquarters in Brussels.
Photo by AFP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to arrive in Ukraine for talks, a day after calling Russia's decision to send an unauthorised aid convoy there a "dangerous escalation".

More than 100 Russian lorries entered eastern Ukraine on Friday without permission from Ukraine's government.

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