Russian President Vladimir Putin uses the period of elections in Germany and France to pause the "Norman format" of negotiations, the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group (TAG) in the Misk, Irina Gerashchenko.

"Germany enters the election period, which will be held in September. In France, in the coming months, only the new cabinet of the newly elected president will be formed, and they will not be up to foreign policy, at least not up to Donbass. In the US, just as structures are being formed that are responsible for certain areas of foreign policy, "wrote Gerashchenko on her Facebook page.

"Putin is using all this, therefore, the" Norman format ", in fact, is put on a certain pause, and this directly affects the" Minsk format ", derived from the Norman one," said Gerashchenko.

Recall that on March 24 a meeting of representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Norman Quartet in Paris took place without the participation of Russia.