Advisers to leaders of Normandy Four countries to meet on April 19 – Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he thinks that a new Normandy Four summit is possible, adding that advisers to the leaders of the Normandy Four countries will meet on April 19.

"I think it is important that we are getting closer to the next N4 [Normandy Four] meeting. I think it is possible. On the 19th of [April] there will be a meeting of Normandy Four advisers, and a number of issues will be discussed," Zelensky said.

According to him, the advisers should coordinate positions on clusters developed by the French and German sides, and Ukraine and Russia were to submit their additions.

"Clusters are a step-by-step implementation of the Minsk agreements," Zelensky said.

On March 24, the Russian newspaper Kommersant published an article revealing the essence of a German-French project "Key clusters for the implementation of the Minsk agreements," with proposals from the Ukrainian and Russian sides on their vision of resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Oleksiy Arestovych, the information policy adviser of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, said the content of the Minsk negotiation documents on key clusters for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, currently being discussed in the Trilateral Contact Group, was not disclosed before their signing at the request of France, Germany, and the OSCE.

Head of the Ukrainian President's Office Andriy Yermak said that Russian media outlets were spreading a version of events as part of peace talks in eastern Ukraine, which is advantageous to the Russian side.

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