...On the "weaponization of information."
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaking aside U.S. State Secretary John Kerry to journalists this morning, ahead of the second day of a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Luebeck, Germany:
"The weather in international politics is quite stormy -- the conflict in eastern Ukraine is only two hours away from here. We [will be] discussing the situation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian conflict later on. We will be starting today with [where we] stand in our negotiations with Iran. We have to discuss the situation in the Middle East with ISIL [in mind] -- about Iraq and Syria."
More on the diplomatic shuffle by Kyiv, from our Washington correspondent Carl Schreck: