“We hope this will create an appropriate atmosphere for the further implementation of the Minsk agreements,” she wrote on Facebook.

Earlier, the plenipotentiary representative of Russia at the talks, Boris Gryzlov, stated that all the participants in the contact group for a settlement in eastern Ukraine at a meeting in Minsk agreed on the Steinmeier formula for its implementation in Ukrainian legislation.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that a new law will be developed on the special status of Donbass, which will include the Steinmeier formula.