Four-way Ukraine summit planned
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France aim to meet in Belarus's capital Minsk on Wednesday to discuss a peace plan for eastern Ukraine, the BBC reported.
It comes after leaders of the four countries discussed the ongoing conflict by telephone on Sunday.
More than 5,300 people have been killed by fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia rebels since April 2014.
Western countries accuse Russia of arming the rebels and sending troops to Ukraine - claims Russia denies.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have been leading efforts to establish a new peace plan.
The detailed proposals of the peace plan have not been released, but the plan is thought to include a demilitarised zone of 50-70km (31-44 miles) around the current front line.
Mrs Merkel, Mr Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin held an "extensive" telephone conference on Sunday, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
The four parties discussed "a package of measures" to try to reach "a comprehensive settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine," Mr Seibert said, adding that the leaders aimed to meet on Wednesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he expected the meeting in Minsk to produce "important decisions."
However, Mr Putin said the planned meeting would only take place "if by that time we manage to agree on a number of points."
Signatories of a previous ceasefire deal - Ukraine, Russia, rebel representatives and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) - would also meet in Minsk on Wednesday, Mr Seibert said.
That deal, which was signed in Minsk last September, failed to end the fighting and the rebels have since seized more ground.
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