“We hope, today we talked about this, that at the next meeting of the trilateral contact group, humanitarian issues on the exchange of prisoners, on the opening of checkpoints, which have been ready for more than a year from the Ukrainian side, will be unblocked,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Yermak added that all parties to the talks are interested in holding a summit in the Normandy format at the level of heads of state.
Earlier, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia Dmitry Kozak said that the negotiations of political advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four countries in Berlin ended without significant results.