Germany warns against ‘sabotaging’ Minsk summit

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warns all sides in the Ukraine conflict against acts of “sabotage,” speaking on the eve of a planned Ukraine peace summit in Minsk.

“It wouldn’t be the first time that an act of political sabotage, a targeted strike, destroys all hopes of a ceasefire,” he said.

“That’s why I hope that no party to the fighting pushes things to the point where an explosion of violence calls Minsk into question.”

Intense fighting in Ukraine, including a rocket strike on Kiev’s military headquarters in the east, killed scores of people Tuesday on the eve of the scheduled four-way peace summit.

— AFP

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