French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu spoke with Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu about the conflict in Ukraine and the fight against terrorism, in their first telephone conversation in around one and a half years. Lecornu condemned the terrorist attack near Moscow in late March and reminded Shoigu of France’s willingness to step up exchanges in the fight against terrorism, the Ministry of Defence in Paris said in a statement on Wednesday evening. Lecornu emphasized that France had no information on a link between the attack on the Crocus City Hall event centre in north-west Moscow, which…