She noted that the dialogue went on for more than 10 hours.

According to her, the situation around Ukraine is extremely tense.

“We, in the Normandy format, together with our French friends, have finally returned to the tracks of negotiations with the Russian and Ukrainian sides, and we will continue to use this Normandy format, although it is difficult, in order to move forward in the Minsk process,” RIA Novosti quotes the minister.

Earlier it became known that the negotiations of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four countries in Berlin ended without significant results.

Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of the presidential administration of Russia, expressed the hope that the Ukrainian authorities would have the prudence not to start military operations against their own citizens in the Donbass.