KIEV: Western and Russian leaders headed into a day of diplomatic wrangling over the Ukraine crisis on Wednesday, a day after United States (US) President Barack Obama warned Moscow was not “fooling anybody” over its role in Crimea.

US Secretary of State John Kerry was to meet Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for the first time since Ukraine’s Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted after three months of pro-European Union protests which left nearly 100 dead.

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