Presidential Office

The Ukrainian delegation, including Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksiy Reznikov and member of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Andriy Kostin took part in a meeting of political advisors to the leaders of the member states of the Normandy format on Friday in Berlin.

As of this morning, we have received a number of contradicting demands from them, which distort the nature of the ceasefire agreements and further humiliate the OSCE as an authoritative and objective mediator. That is why the "one-time inspection" of only one point agreed within the security subgroup of the TCG will not take place.

The key priority for Ukraine is to save the lives of our military and civilians in Donbas. We value every life. In order to refute the fakes and prevent new provocations, an agreement was reached today within the Trilateral Contact Group on a joint inspection in the area of the settlement of Shumy with the participation of a representative of the OSCE coordinator.

An extraordinary meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in the format of a video conference was held on Wednesday, September 9, in order to prevent the disruption of the regime of full and comprehensive ceasefire.

On Sunday, September 6, Kyiv hosted an extended meeting of the leadership of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group involving Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksiy Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Taran and representatives of the General Staff of Ukraine.

The government of the Russian Federation periodically updates the list of natural persons - citizens of Ukraine on whom special prohibitive sanctions are imposed. This time, sanctions have been imposed against members of a number of Ukrainian parliamentary parties. The motivation for such actions always has no obvious logical explanations and is most likely situational and speculative in nature. Aimed at propaganda purposes.

A regular meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE) was held in the format of a video conference.

Certain comments made in an interview by Deputy Head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group Vitold Fokin do not reflect Ukraine’s official position. This was stated by Head of the President's Office Andriy Yermak.

The new date of the meeting will be announced later.