Reutersr reports that Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia will hold further talks at the advisor level about a shipping standoff in the Kerch Strait. This according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She urged Moscow to let Ukrainian vessels enter the Sea of Azov.<br />Russia is resisting international calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships. Its border patrols fired on the ships and seized them in the strait near Russian-annexed Crimea last weekend. <br />
