REUTERS

"Here, Russia must assert its influence on the separatists," spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement, describing Merkel's message to Putin, Reuters wrote.

He said the phone call took place at Putin's request.

As UNIAN reported earlier, on February 1, 2016, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in Berlin that the next Normandy format meeting would be held among the four countries' ministers of foreign affairs in Paris next week.

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