Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said a new peace plan proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, which will be presented to Moscow on Friday, has raised hopes for an end to the fighting with pro-Russian rebels.
Talks between the three leaders "give hope for a ceasefire", the Ukrainian presidency said in a statement.
There was no joint declaration after their talks and few details have emerged about the German-Franco diplomatic initiative.
Speaking in Paris before heading to Kiev, Mr Hollande said he and Ms Merkel would "propose a new solution to the conflict based on the territorial integrity of Ukraine".
Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung said the proposal calls for "an immediate ceasefire" and offers greater autonomy for the separatists in eastern Ukraine, across a larger area than envisaged in an earlier ceasefire deal agreed in Minsk.
The two European leaders want to make clear to Mr Poroshenko this could be "the last chance" to avoid a military defeat and economic collapse, while Russian President Vladimir Putin will be warned of the possibility of more sanctions, the paper added.
A spokesman for the German government dismissed the information in the article as "not accurate".
