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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on May 30 that the parties are thinking on how to add new momentum to the Minsk process to end the war in Donbas.

“Exactly using this good opportunity, we want to think how to revive the Minsk process so as to achieve the goal – the establishment of peace in the east, which the people there are longing for,” Maas said at a news briefing in Kyiv.

Earlier on May 30, Zelenskiy for the first time negotiated with the foreign ministers of France and Germany, the countries that are involved in the Normandy-format talks along with Ukraine and Russia.