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Moscow - Russia and Ukraine are maintaining political contacts 'at different levels and in different formats,' Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

The contacts are aimed at immediately putting an end to “violence and starting a true rather than a pretended dialogue with all regions of Ukraine on all aspects of [Ukraine’s] governance system,” Lavrov told journalists on Thursday, June 12.