Russia, Ukraine and the European Union have agreed to hold talks on a long-running dispute over the price Kiev pays for gas, as well as a proposed free trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU. The talks will also incorporate efforts to improve the security situation in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists have fuelled an insurgency against the central government. Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko and the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are set to hold face-to-face talks, according to Reuters, but the parties have yet to agree on a location and date. The high-level nature of the proposed meeting suggests all parties may be closer to agreeing to de-escalate the crisis, which has reached new lows since a Malaysian passenger airliner was downed in eastern Ukraine in mid-July, killing all 298 people on board.
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