France and Germany must put a lot of pressure on Russia - Zelenskyi
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyi believes that Ukraine's partners in the Normandy format, France and Germany, should put pressure on Russia to accept the developed clusters to end the war in eastern Ukraine.
He stated this in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rubryka reports.
"We've made a very important step in the Normandy format today. The so-called clusters have been written, which were agreed upon by Germany, France, and Ukraine and handed over to the Russian Federation. The thing the countries which are part of the Normandy format need to do is to put a lot of pressure on Russia to take this plan, these clusters and end the war in Donbas," Zelenskyi said.
As reported, on March 24, the Russian newspaper Kommersant published an article revealing the nature of the prepared German-French project "Key Clusters for Carrying Out the Minsk Agreements" with proposals from the Ukrainian and Russian parties on their vision of resolving the situation.
Oleksii Arestovych, Information Policy Adviser of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, stated that the content of the Minsk negotiation process documents on key clusters for implementing the Minsk agreements currently being discussed in the TCG wouldn't be disclosed until they were signed at the request of France, Germany, and the OSCE.
The Head of the Office of the President, Andrii Yermak, noted that the Russian media spread the version of events favorable to the Russian party within peace talks in eastern Ukraine.
