Ukraine crisis: Leaders agree peace roadmap

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 Petr Poroshenko, as well the leaders of France and Germany.

French President Francois Hollande said it was a “serious deal” but not everything had been agreed.

Thousands of people have been killed in the fighting in the east of Ukraine.

The meeting in Belarus – which began on Wednesday – was focused on securing a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a demilitarised zone in Eastern Ukraine.