The Normandy Group of Advisors on the Ukraine situation, met for nine hours Thursday in Berlin. The meeting failed - miserably.

Russia's Dmitry Kozak confirms - through the 9 hours of talks parties tried to agree a common statement but failed.

France and Germany had common interpretation how to progress but Ukraine, in Kozak's words, refused to even quote Minsk agreements on necessary dialogue with Donbass.

Ukraine previously agreed to direct negotiations with Luhansk and Donetsk, and signed the agreement. Now, they're reneging on what they agreed to!

The message is clear: Ukraine does NOT honor its word. Ukraine does NOT honor its agreements.

Ukraine's Andrii Yermak expects more Normandy meetings at the political advisors' level "soon" but there's neither an agreement on the summit, nor on the venue for offline TCG, which would rather continue via video-conference.

Dmitry Kozak says the next meeting of the Normandy Four political advisers will be decided depending on the progress at the upcoming [virtual] meetings of the Trilateral Contact Group.