"Have a breakthrough reached? No," - the Kremlin about "Norman Summit"

The Kremlin commented on the Norman Four summit in Paris on December 9. According to the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, the meeting did not lead to a "fateful breakthrough." “Have the Norman format resumed after a fair break? Yes. Were the fateful breakthrough reached? No,” Peskov said on the air of Channel One.

The initiator of the new summit in the Norman format was President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, one of the main pre -election promises of which was the termination of the war in the Donbass. At negotiations in Paris, Zelensky first met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Their bilateral negotiations lasted several hours. Zelensky, following the results of one of the Ukrainian journalists "Who?" He answered: "Let's say that a draw."

According to the results of the summit in Paris, it was reported that the parties agreed by the end of the year to ensure the ceasefire in the east of Ukraine, and also discussed the exchange of prisoners. But about any new measures to end the war is not known.

In addition, the parties could not agree on holding elections in the so -called "DPR" and "LPR". Kyiv insists that voting is carried out after he is returned to control over the border with Russia. Moscow claims that this contradicts the Minsk agreements.