MOSCOW, January 6 Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Dmitry Kozak held talks with Foreign Policy Advisor to the German Chancellor Jens Plötner and French President Emmanuel Bonn, diplomatic adviser to the President of France, devoted to the internal Ukrainian settlement, they lasted almost 4.5 hours. As the RIA Novosti correspondent reports, the negotiations took place in the Moscow region. After the talks, Kozak is expected to answer questions from the media. Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have telephoned Ukraine twice in the past month. During the conversation, which took place on the evening of December 30, Biden clearly stated that the United States did not intend to deploy offensive strike weapons in Ukraine, but warned about sanctions, Putin said that in this case, a complete breakdown of relations could follow. The leaders agreed to continue the dialogue after the New Year. The «Normandy format» of negotiations on Ukraine has existed since June 2014. Then, during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the landing of the Allied troops in Normandy, the leaders of Germany, Russia, Ukraine and France for the first time discussed the settlement of the conflict in Donbass. The previous summit was held in Paris on December 9, 2019. Recently, the parties at different levels have been discussing the prospects for interaction in this format.
