Russia says it has handed captured naval ships back to Ukraine

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that Moscow had successfully handed three naval ships it captured last year back to Ukraine.

Ukraine has been pushing for their return as a good will gesture from Moscow ahead of a four-way peace summit on eastern Ukraine next month in Paris.

(Reporting by Maria Kiselyova and Alexander Marrow; Editing by Andrew Osborn)