French President Francois Hollande will make an unscheduled stop in Moscow later today to discuss the Ukraine crisis with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, his office has said.
The French president will stop in the Russian capital on the way back home from a visit to Kazakhstan and will likely meet Putin at an airport in Moscow, according to a statement from his office.
Warning that the eight-month Ukraine crisis - which sparked off a brutal east-west stand-off- posed "serious threats to the economy of the entire region", yesterday President Hollande promised "to work together to find all the points that will allow... to initiate a de-escalation".
He is the first western leader to visit Russia since the beginning of the crisis.
The European Union and the United States have imposed sanctions on Russia over the conflict that has seen Moscow annex Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and some 4,300 people die as a result of fighting between Kiev government troops and pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Because of the tensions, France has been forced to delay delivery of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers that it was building for Russia in a 1.2 billion euro contract.
Paris faces hefty fines if it breaches the contract with Russia, but risks the wrath of its allies around the world if it delivers the hot-button technology to Moscow with the Ukraine crisis still raging.
With a flat-lining economy France could find itself saddled with two massive warships equipped with Russian technology that it cannot sell to another client and no money to show for it.
The first of the two assault ships was supposed to be delivered in November, according to the terms of the deal Russia and France signed in 2011.
Meanwhile Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said today that his envoy would attend a crucial round of peace talks with pro-Russian rebels in Minsk next week.
The western-backed leader said a "preliminary agreement" had been reached for a meeting also involving envoys from Moscow and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to be held on Tuesday.
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