MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the Ukraine crisis should be resolved as quickly as possible and that Moscow's aim was to restore political unity to Ukraine.
Putin also warned Kiev at his annual end-of-year news conference that it must respect all its regions if it wanted peace.
(Reprting by Andrey Kuzmin, writing by Thomas Grove, editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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