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Urgent: Leaders at Minsk talks in contact over Ukraine: Kremlin

Xinhua, February 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Leaders at the Minsk talks are keeping in touch over Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

"Four heads of states in the Normandy format plan to hold telephone conversations as soon as all relevant sides start to truly implement the Minsk agreements," Interfax news agency quoted Peskov as saying.

Russia expects all points of Minsk accord could be implemented, the spokesman said.

Speaking of detained Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko,

Peskov said Savchenko's case would be decided by a Russian court, adding "no promises of Savchenko's prompt release were made at the meeting and degree of her guilt would be determined by court." Endi