Puskov: Minsk gives a chance for peace

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma, Alexei Pushkov, believes that today's meeting of the 'Normandy Quartet' will decide the fate of Ukraine, Donbass and the fate of the peace in all of Europe. 

"Today in Minsk, the fate of Ukraine, the fate of Donbass and possibly the fate of peace in Europe is being discussed. Minsk gives a chance for peace and there is no other ways," he wrote on his Twitter account.

As 'Vestnik Kavkaza' reported, the leaders of the 'Normandy Quartet', Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and Petro Poroshenko, are now at the talks in Minsk, where they are discussing the crisis in Ukraine.

The talks in this narrow format lasted almost two hours. Currently they are being held in an enlarged format with the participation of the foreign ministers of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, Interfax reports.