September 8, 2019
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister said on Sunday a prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia was an opportunity to find a solution to the crisis.
“There is an opportunity, a door opened to start making progress towards settling this conflict,” Le Drian told Europe 1 radio,
Russia and Ukraine swapped dozens of prisoners on Saturday in a carefully-negotiated rapprochement that brought Western praise and could thaw a freeze in relations since Moscow’s annexation of the Crimea region in 2014.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Edited by David Evans)
