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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to take concrete steps to stop the flow of arms and equipment to militants across the border with Ukraine.

Poroshenko said this during a telephone conversation with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Putin
on June 26, the Ukrainian president’s press service reported.