Russia Sees Progress on Ukraine as Putin Pursues Dipomacy
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Russia said it’s making headway with the U.S. and the European Union in resolving the dispute in Ukraine after presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama spoke and the two countries’ top diplomats prepared for more talks.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Paris for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said today. In an hour-long telephone conversation initiated by Putin, Obama asked for a written response from the Russian leader to a plan that Kerry presented to Lavrov in The Hague earlier this week, according to a statement from the White House.