The United Nations Secretary-General has urged Ukraine and Russia to meet for talks to prevent the crisis between them becoming “uncontrollable” and spreading beyond the region.<br /><br />“What is important at this time is for Ukrainian and Russian authorities to sit down together and engage in direct and<br />constructive dialogue,” Ban said in the Ukrainian capital Kiev after meeting acting President Oleksandr Turchynov.<br /><br />His visit follows a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, where he also called for dialogue and restraint after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Russian-majority region of Crimea.
