German
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday the standoff over Ukraine could be
solved but only if control was tightened over the Ukraine-Russia border across
which, the West alleges, Russia has been funnelling arms to help a separatist
rebellion.
Merkel
was visiting Kiev as a prelude to a meeting next week between the Russian and
Ukrainian leaders that diplomats say is the best chance in months of a peace
deal in eastern Ukraine, where government forces are fighting pro-Moscow
rebels.
But
she arrived as tensions flared up again. NATO has alleged
