Hopes for a Ukraine peace summit this week faded after top diplomats from France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine late Monday failed to reach agreement on how to resolve the conflict amid heightened fighting there. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with Laurent Fabius, Pavlo Klimkin and Sergei Lavrov —the foreign ministers of France, Ukraine and Russia, respectively—in the latest effort to resolve the Ukraine conflict, which began almost a year ago and set off the worst diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The ministers couldn’t find sufficient common ground for holding a peace summit, which Ukraine had hoped would take place in […]