LONDON—The euro rose on Friday after Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some progress in Moscow’s talks with Ukraine. Even if Putin provided no details, the euro rose 0.4 percent to $1.1043 minutes after Putin said in a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko that talks continued practically on daily basis. “There are certain positive shifts, negotiators on our side tell me,” Putin said, without elaborating. The euro was 0.25 percent higher at $1.1023 as of 1225 GMT, after rising as high as $1.11215 on Thursday in a choppy day. The euro has fallen almost 2 percent against the U.S. dollar in March after Russia started a military operation in Ukraine last month. But it was heading on Friday to its first weekly gains in five weeks. “Although both parties are still quite some distance apart from compiling and signing a formal peace treaty, headlines suggest that …