Peskov called Zelensky's behavior at Normandy talks not serious

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (term of office expired in May 2024) was not serious at the negotiations in 2019. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin, a fragment of the interview was published on February 16 in the correspondent's Telegram channel.

Peskov said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had seen footage of Zelensky grimacing during the Russian leader's statement on the need to implement the Minsk agreements during the 2019 Normandy Four press conference.

"They had sat for three or four hours at the negotiating table before that, and, in fact, Zelensky also behaved the same way there, let's say, not quite seriously in some issues," the Russian presidential spokesman said.

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Thesummit of the leaders of the "Normandy Four" (Ukraine, Germany, Russia and France) was held in Paris in 2019. After the talks, which lasted more than two hours, the heads of state interrupted for a private meeting between Zelensky and Putin.

The Minsk agreements are a package of documents adopted in 2014-2015 to resolve the situation in southeastern Ukraine. The Minsk Protocol was signed on September 5, 2014 by the members of the contact group, as well as the heads of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic. The so-called Minsk-2 (a set of measures to implement the Minsk agreements) was agreed in February 2015 by the leaders of Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine.