Right Sector vacates Kyiv HQ in Dnipro Hotel earlier this morning, following shootout last night. pic.twitter.com/cxeN1alIxV Pic @ukranews_com
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) April 1, 2014
The meeting on Tuesday in Weimar is an attempt by Berlin to revive the Weimar Triangle, a grouping initiated after the collapse of communism in 1991.
The crisis surrounding antigovernment protests in Ukraine and Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula has reinvigorated the group.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French and Polish counterparts, Laurent Fabius and Radoslaw Sikorski, respectively, forged a deal in Kyiv in February between then-President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders that ended days of deadly violence.
The Weimar Triangle ministers said in a joint statement Tuesday that NATO must "reassure the security of our allies."
#Yatsenyuk : Ukraine plans to modernize defense complex, develop military cooperation with West http://t.co/jtMqUIwvdf
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) April 1, 2014
The drills would be conducted in southern and western Ukraine at some point between May and November.
Meanwhile, Russia's Federation Council voted Tuesday to terminate agreements with Ukraine on the Black Sea Fleet.
The Council voted unanimously Tuesday to annul the agreements. On Monday, Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma also unanimously approved the bill.
In 2010, Russia and Ukraine agreed to extend the lease of the fleet's base in the city of Sevastopol until 2042, under a deal that included an annual rent of $98 million and price discounts for Russian natural gas imports to Ukraine.
@JohnKerry en route to Brussels for @NATO meeting. Focus expected to be on #UnitedforUkraine
— Jen Psaki (@statedeptspox) April 1, 2014
Reading Steinmeier's latest statements, hard not to conclude that he wants to scale down the Eastern Partnership and make it less ambitious.
— Uli Speck (@uli_speck) April 1, 2014
He was speaking ahead of a NATO foreign ministers' meeting to discuss Ukraine.
The NATO meeting in Brussels is the first since Russia's military occupation and annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region.
Russia in the past month massed tens of thousands of troops on its border with Ukraine, raising concerns that after annexing Crimea it might invade other parts of Ukraine.
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it was withdrawing a battalion that had ended drills near the border.
Interfax: Russian Ministry of Culture ready to fund film that would tell "the truth about Maidan"...
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) April 1, 2014
would love to have seen pete postlethwaite play Lavrov, philip seymour hoffman as churkin and nigel farage as medvedev @shaunwalker7
— Tom Miles (@tgemiles) April 1, 2014
@shaunwalker7 with Liz Hurley as Tymoshenko and Steven Seagal as Yarosh
— max seddon (@maxseddon) April 1, 2014
@shaunwalker7 @maxseddon I would think Depardieu would be more suited to playing one of the Maidan barricades if he simply lies down!
— Kevin Stewart (@KS66SCO) April 1, 2014
@maxseddon @shaunwalker7 Hilary Swank as Matvienko?
— Oliver Bullough (@OliverBullough) April 1, 2014
@maxseddon @shaunwalker7 Poroshenko played by Robbie Coltrane.
— Alexander Smith (@AlexMurraySmith) April 1, 2014
@AlexMurraySmith @shaunwalker7 @maxseddon Ooh this is fun. Hillary Swank plays plucky Crimean prosecutor fighting rampant "nyash-myash."
— pete_leonard (@pete_leonard) April 1, 2014