AlHijjah 18, 1436, October 02, 2015, SPA -- Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in Paris Friday for talks with French President Francois Hollande ahead of a summit this afternoon on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, dpa reported. The talks, scheduled to address the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, have been overshadowed in recent days by both France's and Russia's announcements that they had commenced airstrikes in Syria. Diplomatic sources said Syria would likely be addressed during the meetings. The summit was planned as a follow-up meeting to a peace agreement inked in February in Minsk to end the Ukraine conflict. The peace accord, which included the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the front lines, has since been flouted many times in a conflict that according to UN estimates, has killed more than 8,000 people and displaced 2 million.