The Ukrainian leader says the Normandy talks do not cover either Crimea, or Nord Stream 2, or security guarantees.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed that a new format of talks on Donbas, Crimea, and Nord Stream 2 be created.
He announced this in an interview for Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, the Ukrainian TV news service TSN reported.
Zelensky says the new format could address not only ways to counter Russian aggression in Donbas and return Russia-occupied Crimea, but also the situation involving Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
"The Normandy format does not mention either Crimea, or the pipeline, or security guarantees. The Normandy format and its subjects would then become part of that [new] structure," Zelensky said.
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