MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelensky discussed the conflict in eastern Ukraine in their first telephone conversation, the Kremlin said Thursday.Zelensky’s office said the release of 24 Ukrainian sailors held by Russia since November was a “key question” during the call. Russia seized their vessels off Crimea last year.“Questions of regulating (the conflict) in south-east Ukraine and joint work on the return of persons held on both sides was discussed,“ Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies after Putin’s first contact with Zelensky, who was inaugurated in May.“The return of other Ukrainian citizens held …read more
Source: theSun
