Ukraine's president says officials will prepare a "roadmap" to a ceasefire with separatists in the country's east. Petro Poroshenko made his statement after a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Belarus, reports GHN based on dw.de
On Tuesday, Petro Poroshenko (right in photo) said he had held "tough and complex" multilateral talks in Minsk with Russia's Vladimir Putin (left), EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (second from left), Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (second right) and Kazakhstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev.
"A roadmap will be prepared in order to achieve as soon as possible a ceasefire regime, which absolutely must be bilateral in character," Poroshenko said in a statement after the talk with Putin on Tuesday.
Ahead of the meeting, there was an obvious difference in how both referred to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine's east, which has killed 2,200 people over the past four months. Poroshenko had said the goal of his visit to Belarus was to "end the bloodshed and begin the search for political compromise."