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Reuters: Ukraine, Russia fail to agree on UN peacekeeping mission

Published June 12, 2018. Updated June 12 at 9:07 am

(L-R) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas and Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov reactv as they prepare to pose for a picture at Villa Borsig in Berlin on June 11, 2018, ahead of a Normandy Format meeting on the conflict in Ukraine. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ

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The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France met in Berlin on June 12 to discuss the implementation of a fragile ceasefire for Ukraine and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the country’s conflict zone.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said after the four-way talks that Russia and Ukraine agreed in principle on a UN peacekeeping mission, but their ideas about how to implement it were still “very much apart.”