According to him, the next step should be a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France.

“We confirmed the meeting of advisers in the Normandy format. This suggests that after the advisers we will wait for the continuation and meeting of the leaders of Normandy, ”he said during a broadcast on the page of the president's office on Facebook.

On August 19, a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbass took place.

Following the meeting, the plenipotentiary of Russia in the trilateral contact group for Donbass, Boris Gryzlov, said that the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Leonid Kravchuk, promised to apply in writing to the Verkhovna Rada because of the decision to schedule the next local elections in Ukraine in 2020.

According to Gryzlov, this decree contains a number of provisions that are in direct conflict with the Minsk agreements.