Russia said on Monday it was ready for dialogue with Petro Poroshenko, who is on course to become Ukraine`s president, but warned the Kiev authorities not to step up armed operations against separatists in the east, Reuters reported.
Echoing remarks by President
Vladimir Putin in the past few days, Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said genuine dialogue between Kiev and the east - where pro-Russian separatists have rebelled against the national leadership - was the key to resolving Ukraine`s crisis.
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