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The settlement of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine is on the agenda for the trilateral contact group meeting due to be held in Minsk on 2 August. It comes after a pro-Russian rebel leader proposed a new federal state in Ukraine and after US special envoy to Ukraine said that Washington was actively reviewing whether to send weapons to Ukraine. Julia Lyubova reports from Moscow.
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