Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko, as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev (C) stands nearby, in Minsk. Putin and Poroshenko greeted each other with a handshake at the start of talks in Belarus on the Ukraine crisis, the first time the two presidents have met since June.