Ukraine meeting fails to resolve crisis

Key players in Ukraine’s political crisis failed to resolve the tensions in nearly three hours of talks in Kiev tonight, but President Leonid Kuchma said progress was made.

Kuchma, who met the two men who claim to have won the election to succeed him, and top European envoys, said a multilateral working group had been established to find a way out of the crisis that has brought hundreds of thousands of supporters of losing candidate Viktor Yushchenko into the streets.