Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron eyed an existing peace plan for the Donbass conflict region as a step towards de-escalation in the Ukraine crisis in talks in Moscow Monday. At a more than five-hour meeting with Macron, the Russian president called on Ukraine to implement the Donbass peace plan. The so-called Minsk agreements have been ignored by the Ukrainian leadership so far, Putin charged early Tuesday after more the talks with Macron in Moscow. A dialogue between Kiev and the leadership of the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk was necessar…