Merkel holds calls with Putin, Poroshenko

German chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken by phone with Russian
president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko
following Russia's capture of three Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea.

Germany has been heavily involved in peace talks between Kiev and
Moscow since Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula in twenty
fourteen.

Ira Spitzer has more from Berlin.

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