Two-dinner Hollande hosts Obama and Putin seeking Ukraine thaw


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  • Thursday, 05 Jun 2014

U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel addresses a joint media briefing with Romania's Defence Minister Mircea Dusa in the Black Sea port of Constanta June 5, 2014. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel

PARIS (Reuters) - Criticised at home for a lack of initiative on Ukraine, French President Francois Hollande will hold separate dinners on Thursday with the U.S. and Russian leaders in an attempt to unlock Europe's worst security crisis since the Cold War.

His aim is to orchestrate an ice-breaking first meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko on French soil, diplomats said, despite continued fighting in eastern Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian separatists.

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