Ukrainian President Vows to Stand Firm In Talks With Russia
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- By Zlatica Hoke
Russian and Ukrainian presidents are meeting in Paris in an effort to end five-and-a-half years of fighting in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed rebels. The first face-to-face meeting between Russia's Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy is mediated by France and Germany and was preceded by a prisoner swap and the withdrawal of Ukraine's military from key areas on the front line. But, as VOA's Zlatica Hoke reports.