Here's an update from Milan courtesy of our news desk:
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says "some progress" has been made during talks in Milan on a dispute over gas supplies from Russia.
Poroshenko was speaking today on the sidelines of a Europe-Asia summit, after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Russia has stopped gas deliveries to Ukraine and is demanding that Kyiv pay billions of dollars in arrears.
Poroshenko said the "basic parameters" of a new contract with Moscow were agreed while further discussion on how to finance it was required.
Asked how the talks had gone, Putin said they were "good," the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
Ahead of the latest round of talks on Ukraine, Merkel said there was "no breakthrough yet."
Deadly fighting persists in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists.
(AFP, TASS, Interfax)