FILE PHOTO: People attend a rally against approval of new peace proposals for eastern Ukraine, in Kiev, Ukraine October 6, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine on Wednesday refused to pull back troops in its restive east, saying for the second time this week that continued shelling by pro-Russian separatists there precluded the implementation of a disengagement agreement.
Moscow, however, said the door was still open for a fresh meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany to discuss resolving the five-year-long conflict in the Donbass region, in which U.N. monitors say more than 13,000 people have been killed.
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