Meanwhile, from "The Guardian":
Protesters are calling on Downing Street to bar two high-profile Russian pop stars who are vocal supporters of Vladimir Putin from entering Britain for a gala performance next week at the Royal Albert Hall.
Crooner Iosif (Joseph) Kobzon and Alla Perfilova – known by her stage name, Valeriya – are due to perform on 21 October at a heavily advertised one-off concert in London.
Critics, who have launched an online petition, accuse the singers of being Kremlin cheerleaders and say the visit, if it goes ahead, will show western sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine are ineffective.
Then there's this:
Latest on the Milan summit from our news desk:
Italy's prime minister said he was "really positive" about the prospects for a solution to the Ukraine conflict after talks attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and European leaders in Milan, but there was no immediate sign of a breakthrough.
"In general, I am really positive after this meeting," Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said after the talks over breakfast on the sidelines of a Europe-Asia summit.
Putin said the meeting was "good, positive".
British Prime Minister David Cameron said Putin assured the other leaders that Russia does not want a divided Ukraine or a frozen crisis.
The meeting came hours after the Kremlin said talks between Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had left "serious differences of opinion" over the crisis in Ukraine, where fighting between government troops and pro-Russian rebels has killed more than 3,660 people since April.
It's a breakfast meeting but there doesn't seem to be any breakfast.
Here's a pic of them.
After last night's meeting with Merkel, Putin has met with leaders at a bigger breakfast meeting:
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a breakfast meeting with European leaders and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko on October 17 after failing to bridge differences over the Ukraine crisis in late-night talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
A two-day Europe-Asia summit in Milan is being overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine, where deadly fighting persists in the east despite a cease-fire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists the West says are supported by Russian troops and weaponry.
The breakfast meeting was attended by Putin, Merkel, and Poroshenko as well as French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and outgoing EU leaders Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso.
Images from a lengthy Putin-Merkel meeting that stretched past midnight showed the two facing each other across a table, their faces unsmiling.
The Kremlin said they still had "serious differences of opinion about the genesis of the internal Ukrainian conflict as well as about the causes of what is happening there now."
Barring any major developments that concludes the live blogging for today.