Tatyana Firsova. The official representative of the German government Steffen Seibert did not explain the details of possible conversations on the phone with the Russian side on the issues of Ukrainian settlement after the trilateral meeting of the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine. before the Commissioner of the German government declared that all the topics that were discussed at the trilateral meeting in Berlin on Ukraine, is expected to discuss with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We report on the negotiations only if they have already occurred, not before. Clearly, because it would be subject to negotiations with Russia, which have the opportunity to be in different formats and at different levels, " he said. The meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko took place in Berlin on August 24. According to the results of the talks, Merkel said the leaders of the three countries gathered in the German capital, "to hold Minsk-2, and not to jeopardize this," and stressed that the Minsk agreement " remain the Foundation of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine." For its part, Poroshenko said no alternative to the Minsk agreements and the " channel format ". first Chapter the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said that has not heard about the plans to meet the leaders of Russia and Ukraine in bilateral format, which did not exclude Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Konstantin Eliseev. The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, all in the field of victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.