“Communication, I think our guys lost. We really didn’t communicate with people and this is true. And this is a mistake, but there were no mistakes in our steps of others defending the interests of our country, ”Zelensky said in the 112 Ukraine TV channel.

On October 1, all participants in the contact group for resolving the situation in eastern Ukraine at a meeting in Minsk agreed on Steinmeier’s formula.

Later, thousands of people gathered in the center of Kiev to protest against the signing by the country's authorities of the Steinmeier formula.