A rift between Europe and the US over the Ukraine crisis appears to be growing after senior American figures reportedly compared the peace initiative by Angela Merkel and François Hollande to appeasement of Hitler in the run-up to the Second World War.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
The Telegraph: Unites States’ officials compare peace efforts to appeasing Hitler
A woman takes a picture as a child looks at a graffito depicting Russian president Vladimir Putin with the haircut and mustache of Adolf Hitler, and reading \"Putler kaput\", on May 7, 2014 in the centre of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 7 asked pro-Kremlin separatists in southeastern Ukraine to postpone a series of disputed referendums planned for this weekend on declaring greater autonomy or outright independence from Kiev. AFP PHOTO/ YURIY DYACHYSHYN
