Russia's president and EU leaders have said their talks on the Ukraine crisis - also including Ukraine's president - were positive but difficult.
The UK, German, French and Italian leaders were expected to press Vladimir Putin to do more to end the fighting.
Correspondents say that while there was no sign of breakthrough, the main thing was to create trust between the sides.
The West says Russia is arming separatist rebels and sending troops to eastern Ukraine. Moscow denies this.
The EU insists that sanctions it introduced against Russia over its involvement in the crisis will remain until Moscow takes action to defuse the crisis.
Ukraine and the rebels agreed a truce in September, but each side accuses the other of repeated shelling.
The separatists control parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
More than 3,600 people have been killed since the fighting erupted in April, following the annexation by Russia of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsular a month earlier.
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