German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned today that there could be no military solution to the violence in Ukraine and urged progress toward a negotiated settlement of the conflict. The minister called on all sides to keep an agreement of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. Steinmeier noted that a meeting of the Contact Group without the separatists yesterday had by all accounts been very difficult. -- SPA 17:14 LOCAL TIME 14:14 GMT تغريد