Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin Sunday were "difficult" but made "some progress", German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after meeting with his Ukrainian, Russian and French counterparts.
"Difficult talks, but I think and I hope that we have made some progress on certain points", the German minister said after a five-hour meeting with Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine's Pavlo Klimkin and Laurent Fabius of France.
"Despite the difficult climate, we have registered some progress", a French diplomatic source echoed. The nature of the progress wasn't disclosed by either Mr Steinmeier or the French source.
"It was a necessary conversation during a difficult time," Mr Steinmeier told journalists after midnight local time at the talks venue, a lakeside retreat on the outskirts of Berlin, after his counterparts had left in their motorcades.
The top German diplomat said the talks were "frank", focused on ways to reach a ceasefire and on "how to improve the still absent efficient border controls on the Russian-Ukrainian border" as well as how to get humanitarian aid to the civilian population.
Edited by Steve Wilson
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