MINSK — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised after late-night negotiations with Russia's Vladimir Putin to work on an urgent ceasefire plan to defuse the separatist conflict in the east of his former Soviet republic.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Poroshenko to seek ceasefire after ‘very tough’ talks with Putin
Russia's President Vladimir Putin reacts during a meeting in the Belarussian capital Minsk on August 26, 2014. Putin and Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko are meeting in Minsk for key talks on August 26, exchanged a firm handshake before going into what are likely to be difficult talks as fighting raged between pro-Russian rebels and Kiev's troops. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV
