The bigger news of the Yanukovych warrants story today?
After four hours of talks at a meeting tonight between the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, participants apparently failed to reach a breakthrough that would allow for the leaders of those same countries to meet in Kazakhstan later this week for Ukraine peace talks.
From dpa:
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France failed to agree on a summit to solve the Ukraine conflict this week, German minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says.
The conditions for such a summit have not been met, he explains after four hours of talks in Berlin.
From Russia's TASS:
Differences of approaches towards the Ukrainian problem among the 'Normandy format' countries remain in place, Germany's Foreign Minister Walter Steinmeier said on Monday.
He also said foreign ministers of the four countries -- Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France -- would hold one more meeting next week.
AP wraps up the meeting:
The foreign ministers of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France were unable to make enough progress in closed-door meetings Monday on the Ukrainian crisis to move ahead with a higher-level summit.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said their four-hour meeting was a "very open exchange" but did not produce the results needed for the countries to go ahead with a meeting of leaders this week in Kazakhstan.
He said representatives from their ministries would meet instead in the coming days to see if they could bridge differences, and raised the possibility that the foreign ministers could meet again after that.
In a joint statement, the four ministers also called on the contact group of Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE to meet to try and make progress on implementing a much-violated Ukraine peace deal drawn up in September, including creating the "relevant conditions for an effective cease-fire."