Putin Meets Ukraine Leader for First Time at Paris Peace Summit

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a joint news conference after a Normandy-format summit in Paris, France Dec. 9, 2019. Charles Platiau/Pool?/Reuters

PARIS—Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time on Dec. 9 at a summit in Paris aimed to advance efforts to restore peace to eastern Ukraine.

Zelensky and Putin are holding talks together with the leaders of France and Germany in a renewed effort to end a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people since 2014.