Interesting piece this:
Here's an excerpt:
"Just stop shooting!"
That, reportedly, was what Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shouted at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin last week as the two had an apparently heated exchange during talks in Berlin over the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
As reported by news website Liga, citing sources in the Ukrainian delegation present at the talks, Poroshenko interrupted Putin to make the remark, raising his voice in the process.
The Ukrainian president has, however, denied those reports. Speaking in recent days on Ukrainian television he said, “I never raise my voice during negotiations. But I did ask Putin to stop artillery fire from Russian troops.”
The Kremlin has backed up Poroshenko’s version of events, with Russian presidential spokesman Dimitry Peskov telling state-backed news agency RIA Novosti that Putin and Poroshenko had a “difficult” conversation, but that no voices were raised.
More on this purported leak, which has been the source of some controversy:
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Savchenko has also confirmed her trip to Moscow in a video she posted on Facebook (in Ukrainian):
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