The French president, François Hollande, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, held a telephone conversation on Wednesday 18 January with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin about implementation of the Minsk peace agreements for Ukraine, two days after discussing the issue with the Ukrainian president, Petro Porochenko.
The Kremlin says they expressed dissatisfaction about the general situation in the country, particularly the deterioration along the contact line in the Donbass region...