Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov says it is “inappropriate” to hold new talks in the Normandy format after the murder of Alexander Zakharchenko, the late head of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DPR”).
“We do not reject the Normandy format, but now it would be just inappropriate and blasphemous to call [a meeting] in that Normandy [Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France] format, especially when neither Berlin nor Paris expressed their condemnation of this political assassination that took place in Donetsk,” he said during the “Big Game” program on Channel One Russia, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti said.
