US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Monday, warning Moscow it could face more economic sanctions if pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine failed to comply with a ceasefire. (France24)

“I’m very hopeful that it will in fact be the start of a change which would be an improvement for everybody,” he told a news conference in Geneva. (BBC)

In the picture, US Secretary of State Kerry with Ukrainian President Poroshenko