The leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine Vladimir Putin, Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel and Petro Poroshenko, who are holding talks at the Elyssee Palace, after talking for about half an hour in the narrow format, continued talks together with members of delegations.
The leaders and members of delegations have taken their seats at the negotiating table. On the one side, Putin and the summit host Hollande are sitting, Merkel and Poroshenko are in front of them.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, chief of the Kremlin directorate for socio-economic cooperation with the CIS states, the Republic of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Oleg Govorun, as well as Russian special representative in the Contact Group on the resolution of the situation in Ukraine Azamat Kulmukhametov are also participating in the talks from the Russian side.
