Summing Up Normandy Format Talks: Ukraine briefs journalists on results of Berlin meeting

Deputy Head of the Ukraine's Presidential Administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev briefed journalists on August 25 about the results of negotiations between President Petro Poroshenko, German Chanceller Angela Merkel and French President Francios Hollande in Berlin a day earlier.

He said Ukraine's European partners strongly endorse the concept of close correlation between the fulfillment of the Minsk agreements and ratchetting up sanctions against Russian officials involved in the continued destabilization of east Ukraine.