There is no talk of the United States joining the Normandy format, but Washington will support it. Karen Donfried, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, said this during a briefing, RIA Novosti reports.

“The main purpose of this visit (to Kiev, Moscow and Brussels last week) was to inform that the United States is ready to assist in the implementation of the Minsk agreements. In support of the Normandy Process. That is, there is no talk of the United States joining the Normandy Process. It is about US support for the current diplomatic process, ”said Donfried.

On December 15, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he would like the United States to play a "major, not episodic" role in resolving the situation in Donbass. At the same time, he noted that the "Normandy format" would work more reliably and more efficiently if it depended only on the Ukrainian side.

Prior to this, the authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics in the Contact Group for the settlement of the situation in Donbass stated that they would insist on signing a "meaningful document" that would contribute to "ending the shelling in practice, and not in declarations."

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