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BERLIN. — A new round of peace talks on the conflict in eastern Ukraine will be held in Berlin today with the foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France taking part, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

“We’re faced with a threatening situation again due to new fighting flaring up in eastern Ukraine in recent days,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Steinmeier said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin had asked him to invite them to talks in Berlin again after several days of intensive discussions in which they tried to find political compromises.

“We now need to prevent military confrontations from intensifying any more and avoid further political escalation between Kiev and Moscow. That’s worth every effort,” Steinmeier said. — Reuters.