Putin, Zelenskyy Shake Hands At 1st Face-to-Face Meeting

Putin, Zelenskyy Shake Hands at 1st Face-to-Face Meeting

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook hands prior to their first ever face-to-face meeting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik on Monday

PARIS (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 09th December, 2019) Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook hands prior to their first ever face-to-face meeting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik on Monday.

Putin and Zelenskyy are meeting in bilateral format on the sidelines of a Normandy Four summit on Ukraine in Paris. The leaders have held several telephone conversations before.

"They simply shook hands. The meeting is yet to come," Peskov said of their first meeting.

Peskov added that moving Putin-Zelenskyy meeting ahead of Normandy Four joint press conference does not put time restraints on its duration.