Should we arm Ukraine to face down Putin?

The Ukraine conflict is at a potential tipping point as the West mulls over arming government forces.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, Franois Hollande, the French president, and Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, all travelled to Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a Ukrainian peace plan with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.

The Hollande-Merkel plan is thought to bebased on last year's Minsk agreement, which called for a ceasefire, withdrawal of artillery and "other concessionsthat were never fully implemented", says Andrew Hammond in The Independent. The conflict is now at a "potential tipping point" with some, including Hollande, talking of "total war".

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Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

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