MILAN: Vladimir Putin meets his Ukrainian counterpart and European Union leaders here on Friday fresh from warning he could pull the plug on crucial Russian gas supplies to Western Europe this winter.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he hoped the breakfast meeting with the Russian leader would help shore up a patchy ceasefire between his government forces and pro-Moscow rebels in the east of Ukraine.

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