A recently exchanged Ukrainian prisoner gets off a plane upon arrival in Kiev after Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap, at Borispil International Airport, outside Kiev, Ukraine September 7, 2019.
Ukrainian Presidential Press Service handout
France's foreign minister said on Sunday a prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia was an opportunity to find a solution to the crisis.
"There is an opportunity, a door opened to start making progress towards settling this conflict," Le Drian told Europe 1 radio,
Russia and Ukraine swapped dozens of prisoners on Saturday in a carefully-negotiated rapprochement that brought Western praise and could thaw a freeze in relations since Moscow's annexation of the Crimea region in 2014.