Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

The German, French, and Polish foreign ministers held talks in Germany on the crisis in Ukraine ahead of a NATO foreign ministerial meeting.

The meeting on Tuesday in Weimar is an attempt by Berlin to revive the Weimar Triangle, a grouping initiated after the collapse of communism in 1991.

The crisis surrounding antigovernment protests in Ukraine and Russia's seizure of the Crimean Peninsula has reinvigorated the group.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French and Polish counterparts, Laurent Fabius and Radoslaw Sikorski, respectively, forged a deal in Kyiv in February between then-President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders that ended days of deadly violence.

The Weimar Triangle ministers said in a joint statement Tuesday that NATO must "reassure the security of our allies."

Russia's State Duma is set to start debates on granting expedited citizenship to foreigners who are native Russian speakers. The amendments to the law on citizenship are scheduled to be discussed in their first reading on Tuesday. The draft amendments propose that native Russian speakers, regardless of their ethnicity, whose ancestors resided in Russia’s territories, as well as in the Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union, can obtained citizenship in a simplified way on the condition the applicants move to Russia for permanent residence and renounce citizenship of other countries. The applicants found by the Federal Migration Service commissions as native Russian speakers will become Russian citizens in three months avoiding mandatory staying in Russia for at least five years in order to be legitimate for the citizenship.

The decision, passed with 256 votes in favor, came after radical nationalists earlier Tuesday surrendered their weapons and left a Kyiv hotel. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said members of ultranationalist Right Sector movement left the Dnipro Hotel they had commandeered as their headquarters, got into buses and headed to a suburban camp. Their departure followed a shooting spree in the capital in which a Right Sector member shot and wounded three people, including a deputy mayor of the capital. Earlier reports said Tuesday that police had detained a suspect in the shooting incident in the hotel located not far from the city's central Independence Square. Right Sector played a key role in the ouster of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych in late February but fell out with the new government following the killing of one of their leaders last month.

Ukraine's interior minister says radical nationalists have surrendered their weapons and left a Kyiv hotel.

Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook Tuesday that members of ultranationalist Right Sector movement left the Dnipro Hotel they had commandeered as their headquarters, got into buses and headed to a suburban camp.

Their departure followed a shooting spree in the capital, in which a Right Sector member shot and wounded three people, including a deputy mayor of the capital.

Earlier reports said Tuesday that police had detained a suspect in the shooting incident in the hotel located not far from the city's central Independence Square.

Right Sector played a key role in the ouster of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych in late February but fell out with the new government following the killing of one of their leaders this month.