Zelensky, Putin holding face-to-face meeting

Ukrainian and Russian Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin have started their face-to-face meeting after the Normandy Four summit.

Diplomats told this to journalists after the summit in Paris on Monday, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

The leaders will then have a working dinner and meet with media representatives.

The leaders of France, Ukraine, Germany and Russia are due to approve a joint communique of the summit.

A meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Format countries took place in Paris on December 9. The meeting was attended by Zelensky, Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Before the summit, Zelensky held bilateral talks with the leaders of France and Germany.

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