"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to attend a meeting in a ‘Normandy format’ tomorrow in Berlin," the source said.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin told journalists that the next meeting in the "Normandy format," with the participation of the Russian, Ukrainian, French and German foreign ministers, would likely take place on January 21 in Berlin.
The exact date of the talks was subsequently confirmed by the German Foreign Ministry.
The Normandy format, like the Minsk, Geneva and Weimar formats, are negotiation configurations used by international mediators to discuss the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.
It dates back to June 2014, when the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine met to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the allied landings in Normandy, France. After the initial meeting, the countries took part in several rounds of high-level and ministerial-level talks regarding the situation in eastern Ukraine.
