German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host a meeting on Oct. 19 with the Russian, Ukrainian and French presidents in Berlin in efforts to reactivate the stalled Minsk peace agreements aimed at a political settlement in eastern Ukraine.
Amid escalating tensions between the West and Russia, Merkel invited Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and French President Francois Hollande to assess the implementation of the Minsk agreement since the last meeting and discuss further steps, but prospects of significant progress have not been optimistic.
