Russia urged Ukraine's leaders on Nov. 19 to talk directly to separatists to end the conflict in the east, but Kyiv rejected the call and told Moscow to stop "playing games" aimed at legitimizing "terrorists."
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Reuters: Ukraine rules out direct talks with separatists
Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyk (R) gives a press conference with Germany's Foreign Affairs minister Frank-Valter Steinmeier after a meeting in Kiev on Nov. 18.
