Last-Ditch Ukraine Talks to Enforce Truce Keep Leaders All Night
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Talks aimed at ending almost a year of conflict in Ukraine dragged into the morning as leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France spent more than 11 hours locked in negotiations to enforce an earlier truce.
The leaders moved between rooms inside Independence Palace in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, which has heated marble floors and gilded walls, as negotiations wore on. Serving staff dressed fashionably in black served coffee, tea, sweets and snacks through the night to fuel Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande.