“I can’t give you a date today, but I can say that negotiations at the German government level are ongoing in order to prepare this summit in the near future,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the Kremlin called it possible to hold a summit in the Norman format until the end of the year.

On November 7, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas emphasized that all parties are actively working to create conditions for organizing a meeting of the “Norman Four”.

The head of the Center for Geopolitical Research at the Institute for Innovative Development, Dmitry Rodionov, in an interview with the FBA “Economics Today” called Moscow’s logical position the senseless meeting in the Norman format only for the sake of the meeting, without Ukraine fulfilling its basic obligations.