This article is from the source 'bbc' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31435812
The article has changed 15 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 0 | Version 1 |
|---|---|
| Ukraine crisis: Leaders agree peace roadmap | |
| (34 minutes later) | |
| A ceasefire will begin in eastern Ukraine on 15 February, the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have announced. | |
| "We have managed to agree on the main issues," Russia's Vladimir Putin said after marathon talks with Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko, as well the leaders of France and Germany. | |
| French President Francois Hollande said a "serious deal" had been reached, although work remained to be done. | |
| Thousands of people have been killed in the fighting in the east of Ukraine. | |
| The meeting in Belarus - which lasted for about 17 hours - was focused on securing a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a demilitarised zone in Eastern Ukraine. | |
| Mr Putin said the agreement also established a line from which heavy weaponry would be pulled back. Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels have accepted the deal, the leaders said. | |
| Mr Hollande said he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel would ask their European Union partners to support it at a summit later in the day. |