Hollande to meet Putin in Moscow – Kremlin
French President Francois Hollande will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, the Kremlin said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
A Kremlin spokeswoman gave no further details. But Russia's Rossiya-24 state television said Putin and Hollande planned to discuss Ukraine and France's decision to suspend indefinitely the delivery of the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers to Moscow because of the crisis in Ukraine.
Russian news agencies said Hollande would make the visit on his way back to France after a trip to Kazakhstan where he suggested that he, Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel should "start the process of reducing tension" together. He gave no details.