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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier are calling for direct dialogue between the Kyiv regime and its opponents.

“Nothing will work without involving the opponents of the regime in a direct dialogue on solutions to the crisis, and the people I have talked to, including U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who call for the use of the Geneva principles in a direct dialogue between the Ukrainian parties,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference following negotiations with his Ugandan counterpart Sam Kutesa in Moscow.