OP-ED

Peter Dickinson: Does Putin want peace?

By Peter Dickinson.

Published April 24, 2020 at 6:39 am

From left: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting with German Chancellor at the Elysee Palace, on Dec. 9, 2019 in Paris. The Normandy Four peace talks are dedicated to end the war in Donbas.

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The April 16 prisoner exchange in eastern Ukraine was the third such swap between Moscow and Kyiv since the election of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy almost exactly one year earlier. However, unlike the previous two exchanges, this one passed off with virtually no fanfare.