French President Emmanuel Macron made phone calls to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Sunday as part of ongoing diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful solution to the escalating crisis in eastern Ukraine.
The talks came on the same day an estimated 30,000 Russian troops had their mission in Belarus extended indefinitely.
Al Jazeera's Zein Basravi reports.

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