The Kremlin said there are reasons to be optimistic about a settlement to the conflict but that more work needs to be done.

EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MANDATORY CREDIT - 'KHERSON REGIONAL MILITARY ... [+] ADMINISTRATION OF UKRAINE / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING C

A court sentenced Voislav Torden, a commander in a Russian paramilitary group, to life in prison for the attack and mutilation of Ukrainian soldiers in 2014.

A Russian man was jailed for life by a Finnish court on Friday for war crimes committed in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where his paramilitary group was found to have killed an injured soldier. The trial of Yan Petrovsky,

A Finnish court has sentenced Vojislav Torden, leader of the Russian paramilitary group "Rusich," to life imprisonment for atrocities committed in eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Voislav Torden, of Russian far-right group Rusich, is found guilty of charges relating to an ambush which killed 22.

A Finnish court on Friday sentenced Russian ultranationalist Vojislav Torden to life in prison for war crimes committed in Ukraine in 2014, including the mutilation of a wounded Ukrainian soldier. The Helsinki District Court found Torden,

The Helsinki District Court in Finland found Voislav Tordenin (Jan Petrovsky), the founder and former commander of the Rusich military group, guilty of committing war crimes in Ukraine and sentenced him to life imprisonment on 14 March.