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Newshour: 20/02/2022 21:06 GMT: Ukraine crisis: Macron and Putin to pursue diplomatic solution

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Ukraine crisis: Macron and Putin to pursue diplomatic solution

20/02/2022 21:06 GMT

20/02/2022 21:06 GMT: Ukraine crisis: Macron and Putin to pursue diplomatic solution

BBC World Service - Newshour, Ukraine crisis: Macron and Putin to pursue diplomatic solution

France and Russia agree to work for a ceasefire on the contact line in eastern Ukraine

France says Vladimir Putin told President Macron he intends to withdraw Russian forces from Belarus once the military exercises are over - apparently contradicting the Belarusian authorities. The French presidency says the two men agreed to pursue a diplomatic solution to the crisis over Ukraine. 

Also in the programme: Ethiopia’s Blue Nile mega-dam starts generating electricity; and Mosul Central Library - destroyed in the battle to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic State militants nearly five years ago - has reopened after restoration. 

Photo: Russian and Belarusian soldiers have been training together. Credit: AFP)

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