Ukraine crisis: Fighting in the east ‘must end this week’
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Kyiv. Deadly fighting in eastern Ukraine must end “this week”, Ukraine’s new President Petro Poroshenko has pledged, BBC reports.
He was speaking at talks involving an envoy from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, fighting has continued in and around the rebel-held city of Sloviansk.
Kyiv and the West accuse Russia of supporting separatists in the east – a claim denied by Moscow.
In a separate development, officials from Ukraine, Russia and the European Union are due to meet in Brussels to discuss Kyiv’s huge gas debt to Moscow.
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