That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Monday, May 29, 2017. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage. Thanks for reading and take care.
More from the meeting outside Paris of French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in Ukraine:
Macron, 39, said the two leaders had a "frank exchange" over their "differences" on a number of issues, including the Ukraine standoff and Russia’s support for President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's civil war.
Macron has said he supports the continuation of Western sanctions targeting Russia over its 2014 seizure of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and backing of armed separatists in eastern Ukraine, whose war with Kyiv's forces has killed almost 10,000 people.
He said last week that he wanted to bring together the "Normandy format," which groups the leaders of Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine and which met first in Normandy, France.
On May 29, Macron said he and Putin agreed the time was right for a new round of peace talks on Ukraine, adding that the talks should take place "in days or weeks."
Putin, 64, said sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia over its activities in Ukraine would not help stabilize the situation in the east of the country, where it borders Russia.