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Stoltenberg was speaking to reporters near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on September 21.

After the BBC complained Thursday, Poroshenko’s office announced that the broadcaster’s three-person team, including its Moscow-based correspondent and producer, would be removed from the list of those who are banned.

The list includes a number of journalists, including three BBC employees based in Moscow and reporters for Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper and several Spanish outlets, as well as some Israeli correspondents.

The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores a decree signed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the organization has announced.

One guardsman was reported on Monday as having been killed in the unrest and almost 90 wounded.

Hopes have risen of a peace deal amid continued fighting this week.

Lavrov said Russian Federation, which was not present at the talks in Berlin, wanted Germany and France to put pressure on Poroshenko to stick to Ukraine’s commitments under the Minsk agreement and to grant the rebel regions greater autonomy.

President Petro Poroshenko told the crowd that Russian Federation has sent more troops to the east, sabre-rattling ahead of key talks in Berlin later.

“I renew my heartfelt appeal, so that the commitments undertaken to achieve pacification are respected, and with the help of organizations and people of good will, the humanitarian emergency in the country is responded to”, Francis told tens of thousands of people...

Poroshenko will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande in Berlin on Monday in a bid to end a new wave of violence in east Ukraine between Russian-backed rebels and Ukraine’s armed forces.

Ukrainian officials reported two civilian deaths on their side, in a suburb of Mariupol on the Black Sea.

It is thought to be the highest single day death toll in more than a month.